Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity soccer teams exhibit fighting spirit for 88, minutes; they rarely let down during a game, and the chief reason is that they are fighting for their sport...
Last week the contradictory novelist-politician offered his 43rd volume in the form of a story of the self-help co-operative movement of California. It is a typical Sinclair novel. It has a good deal of the sunny, buoyant, irrepressible uplift spirit that has distinguished all his writing since he published The Jungle in 1906, the journalistic flare that keeps even his crusading potboilers rattling along at a good clip, a large cast of those singleminded, two-dimensional, easily-stirred individuals who seem to be more frequently encountered in Sinclair's fiction than anywhere else. The co-operative...
...once a question of larger, and less political, importance; one worth mulling over in a spirit of cautions hopefulness. It is not, unfortunately, a program to be embraced ecstatically as a solution for all of mankind's ills, to expect that commerce, peace, and plenty will naturally and immediately flow from this currency agreement...
...following up their good work, might consider the possibilities of further planning. A schedule could be so arranged that in successive years a House would have in the course of the cycle, a different, and therefore more or less desirable, time for giving a dance. Finally, community spirit would be fostered if there was a flat charge to all comers; in other words, no price discrimination between members of the House responsible for the festivities and members of other Houses...
...football managerial competition it was discovered, to the consternation of all concerned that only 8 Yardlings had reported. This represents the lowest turnout within the memory of the oldest inhabitant of Soldiers Field, and, in the opinion of attaches of Dillon Field House, constitutes a serious indictment of the spirit...