Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...normally Republican Connecticut, long-jawed Chester Bowles, former OPAdministrator, who had campaigned hard at picnics and ball games for "voluntary" price control and more state aid for housiag, upset all predictions by edging out Republican incumbent James C. Shannon, a Bridgeport lawyer. Said surprised New Dealer Bowles: "The Roosevelt spirit has proved itself to be very much alive today...
Getting beaten by a Leahy-coached team, rival coaches say, is as unpleasant as going through a meatgrinder. His great weakness as a coach lies in his aloofness. He is a superb organizer, a wonderful tactician, has a talent for inspiring great spirit in his players, who respect him but don't love...
...what kind of an American? Said Tom Dewey (whose campaign, while dull by previous standards, perhaps caught the spirit of the times better than most people yet realized): "I assert that human beings are not identical-that no human being is common-that we are all-every single one of us-uncommon people. We are separate individuals whose human differences in talent, in religious faith, in purpose and achievement, enrich our communities and are to be gloried...
...That 71% think of God as their judge, meting out rewards or punishments for their actions. Seventy-three percent professed belief in some kind of after life ("I believe the spirit goes to heaven and will see members of his family later"; "I suppose there is something-won't be gold streets, though"). Of those who said that they believe in heaven, more than three-fifths coolly admitted that they expect to go there...
Conscientious objectors to the draft will organize a Harvard Peace Fellowship "to infuse a definite spirit among those who oppose militarization" at a meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Winthrop House Junior Common Room...