Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mourning churches but a tolling from hundreds of cathedrals, from thousands of parish churches the world over, sounded the grief of the widowed Church and millions of her children over the loss of the kindly little man whom, they devoutly and humbly believed, the workings of the Holy Spirit had given them 17 years before...
...colorful a picture of the sacrifice by which we made the world safe for democracy that we are forever Mr. Sargent's debtors. The quality of the paintings and of the poetry beneath has been many times profaned, but we can scarcely imagine a finer reflection of the spirit with which our soldiers with one embrace clasped Death and Victory. From our point of view this is genuine art, since it has the happy faculty of satisfying both its admirers and detractors. Its admirers can always turn to it with the sure knowledge that they can recapture the exaltation...
Headmaster Robert B. Masterson of the Roxbury school, in ousting the Student Union, violates the spirit of the Constitutional Bill of Rights. Whether knowingly or unknowingly, Mr. Masterson has permitted intimidation of students desirous of joining the organization. Certain pupils have received veiled threats that they will "flunk" if they become members of the A. S. U. The Boston School Committee, which has upheld the Headmaster's action, once more reveals itself an intolerant and bigoted foe of intellectual freedom. As at the time of the passing of the teachers' oath bill, it has again raised the dreaded cry "Moscow...
...educational equipment of the North China universities. But Chinese scholars, who have been blown to Kumming in the South, have established a new national library. It is a library without books. To fill it, an appeal has been broadcast to the world and to Harvard College. The spirit of unity which binds fellow seekers after knowledge should compel a willing response...
Finding the law "a tool which would be used for religious persecution when more intolerant spirit set in", Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, attacked the statute...