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Word: spirited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirit of American nationalism grew, they abandoned their exclusive commercial attachment with the Old Country, and moved into Cambridge, opening up for business on Oxford Street. In 1932 they folded their tents again, and moved over to Boylston Street, transforming a part of Ofgant's stark, cement Chevrolet showroom into a homely little market of a million items...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 11/12/1946 | See Source »

Coach Henry Lamar's charges showed an unusual amount of spirit in their first win of the year. The entire aggregation did a hard, workmanlike job of ball playing and displayed a few talented youngsters who will probably ease Varsity mentor Dick Harlow's burdens next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kenary Shines as Freshman Gridders Subdue Dartmouth | 11/12/1946 | See Source »

...able freely to enter their churches and they mine in the sacrament of the Lord, that His life may freely circulate between us. Cannot we grow to full communion with each other before we start to write a constitution? Have we the wisdom, the humility, the love and the spirit of Christ sufficient for such a venture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Full Communion | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...jobs she could, such as designing leatherwork and making artificial flowers in a sweatshop. In October 1874, she read a newspaper account of séances held by the Eddy brothers in Vermont. Spiritualist Blavatsky promptly descended on the Eddys in a scarlet shirt and a whirl of exotic spirit controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Theosophy's Madame | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...nicknamed "The Lamasery," and decorated like a bad dream. Here, for two years, she picked the brains and reference libraries of her more scholarly associates to write her 1,200-page Isis Unveiled, which she claimed was dictated to her by the Masters of Wisdom via astral light and spirit guides. In 1878, Madame, the Colonel and two followers set out for mysterious India to search out "secret doctrines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Theosophy's Madame | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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