Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sounded the call to arms in the nation's churches. Four weeks before war the Railroad Brotherhoods said their threatened strike would be called off in event of war. Nicholas Murray Butler's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace had for several months been whooping up war spirit. Creel's hand was seen, however, in the speedy passage of the Espionage Act of June 15, the Sedition...
Besides being a real pianist, Fats is a marvelous showman. Not only can he add some extremely funny innuendoes to the most innocuous songs, but be manages to put a spirit of horseplay into everything he does that makes an evening of listening to him an event...
Ownership of land and the individualism which it produces were described by Professor Jones as characteristic of the American spirit in history and literature. His listeners then debated the influence of industrialism and modern insecurity on these basic elements...
...enabled to consolidate its people by representing to them that they are fighting to defend their homes. Such misrepresentation becomes far more difficult to maintain if the attack is met by defense. This tends to weaken the will of the enemy people. . . . This state of mind, and loss of spirit, will develop all the sooner if the offensive cam paign produces no results comparable to its cost. There is nothing more demoralizing to troops than to see the corpses of their comrades piled up in front of an unbroken defense...
Yale's Charles Seymour: "Whatever the outcome, it is certain that in the future a heavier responsibility will rest upon the United States for the preservation and the fostering of the things most precious to a university - the things of the mind, of the spirit, of beauty, individual freedom, intellectual power...