Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hebrewism ... or renounce their Italian citizenship and residence. . . . They' must abandon any participation in the Zionist movement for a national Jewish home in Palestine ... which would tend to create in the Mediterranean another zone of expansion under British political and economic control, definitely contrary to the Italian Mediterranean spirit...
...Court by placing in it men sympathetic with their states of mind, the record shows." But Mr. Hendrick believes that in the long run the Supreme Court, no matter whether it is regarded as a packed trunk or a Pandora's box, reflects the changing voice, the unchanged spirit of the Constitution: "It is now a commonplace that the dissenting opinions of one generation [of Justices] become the prevailing interpretation of the next...
...sweeping that the Republic, in matters of industry, perhaps of agriculture, has become an integrated nation. Or possibly it should be said that, if these pronouncements do not in themselves create such a new society, others will presently do so, for the same process of reasoning, and the same spirit of accommodation to events, that have extended the meaning of the Constitution to this point can easily push it into new fields." The Federal Government has already assumed responsibilities undreamed of a few generations ago: "It gives financial relief to millions of unfortunates; it clears the slums in cities, assists...
...Moving spirit of this extraordinary performance, which was claimed to have drawn "the first blood ever intentionally shed by U. S. college fencers," was Los Angeles Junior's lively Fencing Coach John Tatum, who exulted: "We have been trying to arrange an affair like this for three years to popularize fencing." The college publicity department had timed it to coincide with a campus dance. Nothing was at stake except Student Bauer's desire for the No. 2 rating on the fencing team, which Student Cousineau enjoyed by virtue of his showing in the Pacific Coast fencing tournament last...
...outdone in "the active expression of a jubilant spirit" by the young and innocent boys in Harvard College, 150 would-be physicians of the graduating class of the Medical School gave Back Bay an unexpected thrill early yesterday morning...