Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirit was high at the start, as wit Victor Borge dashed in from shows at the Copley and Statler to regale the Freshmen with some of his stock Danish patter and piano playing. Much amused by flying programs, flashing cameras, and beer-serving waiters, Borge supplied the only hush of the opening act when he performed novelty arrangements of the Blue Danube and Polonaise...
...tears were understandable. But it would take more than a spirit of sacrifice to stop the Red march in China...
Hebrew Union's new president" is no dogmatist in theology: "I am more interested in hearts than in hats or ham," he says. "As never before, mankind needs pioneers of the spirit. . . . The sense and hope of survival for us and mankind bespeak and demand an all-enveloping passion on our part for the principles and precepts of ... an American Judaism, strengthening and being strengthened by the aims ... of the colonial fathers who called this country 'the new Jerusalem...
Died. Emily Perkins Bissell, 86, originator and guiding spirit of the annual U.S. Christmas Seal drive, which netted $3,000 its first year (1907), more than $18 million last year, and over the years helped drop tuberculosis from first place among fatal diseases in the U.S. to sixth place; in Wilmington...
...completed the final plans, the Committee received warning last night from Richard W. Kimball '50, the Student Council's Chairman for Freshman Affairs, that he will attend the affair, and that if any riotous spirit exists, his committee will recommend to the Council the complete discontinuance of the traditional smoker...