Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of TIME to draw on, what excerpts from those 1,356 issues would you select to express the spirit of May-or September-or December...
...wouldn't blow right for drying their fish. As for sanitary conditions, Red Cloud Towner grumped: "They are not so bad when we observe your city streets . . . littered with popcorn, gum, all sorts of papers . . . The country, with all the tin cans, refuse, offal in general and potent spirit bottles are a sore eye to us, too. We never complain about our white brothers' backyards; why should he take offense at our meager mode of life...
...discussing the Bill of Rights, McCloskey criticized the army for excluding Japanese from the West Coast during World War II. He emphasized that a democratic spirit in the people and the government is vital in retaining liberties for the public...
...Dallas' Swiss Avenue wanted to seem unappreciative or lacking in real Yuletide spirit, but, the neighbors pleaded, the plain fact was that the thing had become a nuisance...
...President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton University made what he called a "heretical" proposal to bis trustees: abolish the campus eating clubs which for a quarter of a century had flourished proudly along Prospect Avenue. They were contrary to the "democratic spirit," said Wilson; they had become a "side show" which seemed "to be trying to control the performance in the main tent...