Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They've got lots of spirit--thought it up themselves," he observed after the first day of spring practice with pads and cleats...
...unmasking of the Heiszmeyers raised the question: Are other Nazis, listed as dead, still alive? Last week Gertrud Scholtz-Klink emphasized the doubt. "The spirit of Hitler is not dead," she declared...
...words seem necessary to focus the intention, "take but one little word of one syllable, for one is better than two; the shorter the word, the better it harmonizes with the work of the spirit. Such a word is this word GOD or this word LOVE. . . . [A single word] pierces the ears of the Almighty God, quicker than any long psalter unmindfully mumbled in the teeth. Therefore it is written that the short prayer pierces heaven...
...early youth "Win" Robinson was something of a puzzle to the citizens of his home town, Gardiner, Me. In his family he suffered from his status as the youngest-and unwanted-child, unable to gain the love of his inaccessible sexagenarian father. In the town his only kindred spirit was an eccentric doctor, more interested in composing vil-lanelles than in dosing colds. Among the boys & girls of his own age he was ill at ease, his mind roaming in regions they neither could nor wished to enter...
With similar instruction in 'other legal activities' in the offing, the newly-formed committee's first official release said, "the purpose of the groups, in a general way, will be to foster House spirit by providing facilities heretofore lacking or inadequate in the College...