Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that what is worth saving is never wholly lost. For Whitehead, God was not an awesome tyrant but "the poet of the world, with tender patience leading it by his vision of truth, beauty and goodness." It is a long, hard road. In the Odyssey of the human spirit, said Whitehead, "every generation must carry the cross up the hill and there suffer for the next generation." Last week in Cambridge, Mass., 86-year-old Philosopher Whitehead went over his hill...
After Michigan scored its sixth touchdown, Coach Fritz Crisler sent his fancy first-stringers back into the game. This was no spare-the-enemy contest, or a save-yourself-for-next Saturday spirit; this was the season's end, and it was mayhem with a motive. So people thought Notre Dame was 1947's team of the year, did they? Crisler was out to set the record straight-by beating Southern California worse than Notre Dame had (38 to 7). On grass sprayed with paint to look even greener (for this was in Southern California), the Rose Bowl...
...there is no cause to view with alarm. By July most of the snow will be gone, and happy boys and girls will tread the greensward without hard, sudden falls. The cars will run once again, and a new spirit of triumph will probably...
...most of his life among the well-to-do, whom he naively regarded as a "great part of the world." But his spiritual teaching was no less exacting for all that. "Hold this therefore as a certain truth," he once wrote, "that the heresy of heresies is a worldly spirit." The Serious Call, says McNeill, has been criticized for its "one-sided emphasis on good works" and "lack of stress on Scripture." But it influenced many. No less a critic than Dr. Samuel Johnson called it "the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language...
Salem believed that Jefferson had imposed the embargo because of his visionary theories, that he persisted in it from pride of opinion, and eventually, that he was determined to ruin New England. Ten years passed before Salem shipping recovered from the effects of the embargo. The old spirit of adventure never came back. Salem crumbled, like one of the ships in her harbor. "It fell to atoms," said Oliver Wendell Holmes, "but never ceded itself...