Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protection it affords to both employer and employee. The proposed plan, now being formulated in several states, wherein the employers are generously allowed to contribute to the fund and the employees to stand cheering on the sidelines, would defeat the whole purpose of the bill both in cooperation and spirit...
...land boomed with the clashing words of World Court debaters. In Manhattan, Funnyman Will Rogers devoted his Good . Gulf Gasoline broadcast to a rambling, pointless harangue against the Court which was printed in next day's Hearst- papers. In Washington, Mrs. Roosevelt asked: "Is it really the spirit of our country, men and women, young and old, that they are afraid to join the World Court? I cannot believe it. ... I beg of you to let your representatives in Congress know at once." But above them all, for the second time that day, sounded the great voice from...
...Hartford management was the company's practical progressiveness, its stanch independence. Hartford Electric was the first U. S. utility to use high-voltage transmission, first to use aluminum lines, first to install a steam turbine, first to use that marvel of efficiency, the mercury turbine. But the spirit of innovation never pushed its way into the treasurer's office. Not only is Hartford Electric completely free of a holding company; its capitalization is the simplest conceivable-840,000 shares of common stock and not a dollar of bonded debt...
...different provinces surrounding Pargny, which is on the River Aisne. All this gives The Iron Mother, which might have been just another story of a dominating female, a salty, Gallic flavor, which will take U. S. readers into the atmosphere of a culture that is far, far away in spirit. The translation, by Vyvyan Holland, is supple, muscular-French prose rendered in good English prose...
...Unrestrained condemnation of the gambling spirit uttered in ex cathedra fashion by the more articulate critics is likely to prove unconvincing to pupils who themselves indulge in gambling or who have friends who easily accept it as a natural bit of behavior in the sport...