Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are many kinds of school spirit. Some people wear huge W's on their watch fobs" some go to all the football games, and even contribute a fullback or two; many more content themselves with getting drunk when the occasion demands. Mr. Pereles did none of these things...
...Newton to the present day, were mostly "Aryans," predominantly Nordics. Jews have been numerous in the dogmatic school. Therefore, since Jews have also revealed a penchant for dogmatism in theological doctrine and Marxian dialectics, it is reasonable to suppose that dogmatism is a general quality of the Jewish spirit...
Thus thundered doughty Professor Stark in the columns of Nature, probably the best-known scientific journal in the world. An international clearinghouse for major research, Nature has frequently found occasion to excoriate abuses of the scientific spirit in Nazi Germany. At first glance it seemed curious that the editors of Nature bothered to print Professor Stark's expostulation...
Said TIME'S Publisher Ralph McAllister Ingersoll: "We do not propose that the spirit of these great magazines, whose subscribers remained loyal to the very end, shall disappear from the American scene...
...wholly opposed to the raising of funds for the Church or its work by means of gambling games or gambling devices, and I trust that no parish or mission in this diocese will permit or countenance such action." The Bishop declared he was equally opposed to legalizing "the gambling spirit," even for charity. The annual convention of his diocese applauded, voted unanimously to notify the State constitutional convention of their disapproval of gambling...