Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...encourage this inquiring spirit, Dr. Ray joined with 56 "intellectually curious dentists" last week at Baileys Harbor, Wis., for a seminar on dental medicine above the grind-and-fill level. The main idea, says Dr. Ray, is that dentists examine a lot of people who think that (except for tooth troubles) they are perfectly well. But the mouth is lined with delicate mucous membrane which often shows signs of deeper-lying ailments. If the dentist is alert and informed, he can spot hints of syphilis, leukemia, Addison's disease, many other ills. He is thus in a position...
...When he dedicated Stepinac High last fortnight, Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York, who is U.S. Catholicism's most influential leader, wove into his speech every overtone of the Catholic parochial system. In his first sentence he called the school "the full embodiment of the great and generous spirit that is America." Then he praised the prelate for whom he had named it, Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac* of Yugoslavia, railroaded to jail by Tito in 1946, as "the victim of godless Communism and a martyr to the ideals that Americans revere and cherish. He is the symbol of Peter...
...school's most precious endowment," the Cardinal concluded, is "the combination of the American and Catholic spirit fused and sanctified in ... the lives of the 50 priests who have dedicated themselves to the education of your sons that they may be sincere, active Catholics, and thus, inevitably, sincere patriotic Americans...
creatures, And hold communion of spirit in such...
Balance these two factors, Harvard's condition and drive against lack of polish, and you have the plus and minus of this team. They have to their advantage a spirit which has enabled them to absorb great jobs of training and savvy; they must still learn the fine points of the game, both offensively and defensively...