Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gradually came over me that slick-magazine writing -where the hero slips on a banana peel and the heiress falls in love with him and they get married and go off to Monte Carlo-was baloney. It was very late and very slowly and largely in a spirit of revolt against this business that I began to write something different. In Apley I drew on a life in which I had a stake. You have to write about what you have lived to get at some worthwhile truth...
...spirit of experimentation in basic courses has pervaded the College. Although most of this has been done in the General Education program, the Economics Department has come up this year with an interesting solution to a universal academic problem...
...Elephants get off to a bad start and didn't hold the lead once until they won the game with a last minute goal. Farwell Smith, the standout player for Eliot, made up for his unpolished skating by speed and spirit rare in intramural hockey...
Since then, although he is a man who likes his golf and his garden in St. John's Wood, Solomon has gotten more into the spirit of concertizing; in April he will make his first appearance in Finland. As for the U.S., he hopes now to come back "every year for the next ten years...
...stubborn refusal to comply with the spirit of the occasion, stern-faced Cambridge policemen have been confiscating copies of SEE and EYE magazines from local news stands...