Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister of Agriculture Tom Williams launched a new "Dig for Victory" campaign. Lord Aberconway, president of the Royal Horticultural Society, announced that his members would continue to resist the temptation to reconvert to flowers. Pert Minister of Education Ellen Wilkinson appealed to Britons to carry on in "the Dunkirk spirit...
...that last fortnight he had himself made an unsupported charge that the U.S. Embassy was aiding arms shipments to his opponents. Now Perón called for "mutual comprehension" between Argentina and the U.S., said he hoped for U.S. capital because "it would bring the organizing, technical and progressive spirit distinctive of North American temperament." This week Washington answered-and the answer was like a blast from a siege-gun (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...United States during the war. There was no compact or elaborate treaty between them. They were bound only in loyalty to a common idea of liberty. . . . That union still exists and will have to be maintained. But ... if we try to write it down we will destroy the spirit...
Only two old Houses remain in the Yard. In the bigness and bustle of modern life, they preserve the spirit and flavor of a simpler Harvard, where the faculty and students could both live and work within the confines of the Yard. The Palmer House still stands on its lawn amid trees, as it was originally intended to do, and still serves as a dwelling house. The beauty of this old house and the sense of openness which its grounds give to its corner of the Yard not only constitute an invaluable link with Harvard's past but lend...
While Michelangelo was furiously improving the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for Pope Julius II, a handful of Papuans were equally hard at work in a New Guinea clubhouse. They fashioned masks 10 feet high out of bark. Each mask represented a mythological spirit, but no Renaissance classicist could have recognized the 100 weird, bearded birds and sharp toothed half-humans who emerged, after ten years of labor, from the clubhouse. And Europeans, who like to think of art as immortal, would have been amazed to see the masks burned (after a month of ceremonial dances) amid the acclamations...