Word: spirit
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...been such that she could not meet her in football, then Harvard felt that it would be impossible for her to meet Yale in any sport," said "Professor Ames," who chaired the Athletic Committee. But he trumpeted "that in taking this ground Harvard was not actuated by any spirit of hostility nor of retaliation...
Though the Eli and Harvard football teams faced a tough game on Saturday, the 1925 Crimson reports that both teams were "full of spirit" before the match...
Bosomefi finally sparks his mother's fury when be gives the Governor a precious family heirloom which honors the spirit of his ancestors. After a confrontation with his mother, be realizes his transgressions, but the 'natives' are not willing to accept him, and the British feel that be is acting rebellious. Overall, Ansah creates a riveting film, but be should have felt compelled to cut certain explicitly violent scenes which ruin the eloquence of "Heritage Africa...
...that hardly amounts to a declaration that peace is about to break out in Bosnia. Indeed, far from it. But if nothing else, the modest gesture attested to a spirit of grudging but determined compromise that seemed to pervade the first week of talks at Wright-Patterson. Perhaps that spirit stemmed from the Balkan leaders' recognition that this was probably their best and last foreseeable chance to craft peace. Or maybe it was owing to the tremendous diplomatic and military prestige America has staked on the conference's outcome. Whatever the reason, despite efforts to ratchet down expectations, a case...
...September, after two years of intermitient and deliberations, the committee issued a lengthy report. Some committee members said the University's decision ignores the spirit of those recommendations, which had been widely circulated before the University's decision...