Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work would begin by negotiating a series of mutual pledges by which states would "bind themselves to abstain from a certain number of practices contrary to the interests of the community of participants" and further "bind themselves one toward the other to take up and to examine in a spirit of understanding and mutual assistance the problems and difficulties arising in their economic relations...
...some ways the buoyant, penniless, unbreakable Bronson Alcott-who bounced up and down as good-naturedly as if the path from success to failure was the most pleasant and natural one in the world-symbolized this spirit better than anyone else...
...pursue it, in a second room, in several fine Ingres, in a Delacroix and a Gericault and a whole sheaf by Degas; we discover it, still potent, in four cartoons of pure line, by Picasso. Certainly in those two rooms we contemplate a wondrous diversity of the human spirit, conveyed by the mere line and surface of drawings...
...Francis Lee Jaques. British Columbia's crack rifle shot Major Allan Brooks, Audubon Societies' youthful Roger Tory Peterson (Field Guide to the Birds), and the late brilliant Louis Agassiz Fuertes. But sportsmen and some collectors like the easy naturalism of Brasher's duck pictures, the spirit of his long-shanked road runner, the dash of his bald eagle. Accordingly, not many bird societies and libraries, but rather sportsmen and dilettantes - like Airplane Manufacturer William Edward Boeing, Cereal Manufacturer W. K. Kellogg, Author Paul de Kruif-have bought 84 complete sets of Brasher (874 pictures...
...University had disregarded the spirit of the law and stuck to the letter, it might have served its won interest; for the process by which locals can force contracts from employers is long and cumbersome. Moreover, the independent, "inside" union has made great strides in membership, and has clearly shown that it would be less exacting than the American Federation of Labor. But Harvard has chosen to discard technicalities and to make the kind of settlement the majority of the dining-hall workers desired. For this it is to be commended...