Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said through their Secretary, whom I noticed Dr. Mellon amusingly called "one Jerome Green," that they are not at all averse to have Harvard students study in Germany. Now if they turn down Mr. Mellon's second offer with no strings, as they probably will, no matter in what spirit it is given, will it not look as though Harvard did not want German study for their graduates? But if they accept it won't the Hitler government through its demagogic press agent say that the Corporation has changed their stand and now will take a scholarship which a short...
...close friend of President Conant and many members of the Faculty are surprised and amused at this difference in opinion over a political matter. In commenting upon the article in the ZEITUNG Magoun pointed out that it was a mistranslation and was not truly representative of the spirit in which he sent the confidential cable...
...Dora Black, mother of his son, Bertrand Russell thought he had found a congenial spirit. She was a handsome, vigorous, earthy girl, daughter of a knight and lately down from Cambridge with highest honors. He married her, he explained, not because he thought it was his social duty but because he wanted to legitimatize his son to succeed to the Russell earldom...
...Press soon blossomed with loud hints of the chastened Big Business attitude. Just before the Chamber's directorate met last week the New York Times front-paged a story speculating on what recognition that group would give to the new spirit of conciliation...
...Atlao's back is a roughly carved bear, hugging its nose. Authorities are not agreed as to what this represents. It is a symbol either of man's rise from the bear, or of Atlao's spirit, supposed by his tribe to resemble a bear...