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Word: spirited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heartily agree with the spirit of your Wednesday editorial calling for constructive programs from NSA, and particularly with your emphasis on the importance of the student-DP project. However, I am afraid that you may have done NSA at Harvard a degree of harm by certain inaccuracies in your front-page story Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defends Delegation | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

...Spirit of Peace. Yet even those who were prepared to sneer were strangely moved by Weizmann's homecoming. Half cynically and half devoutly, an Israeli newspaperman said: "After all, even Moses himself didn't make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: After a Small Pause | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...small country, but a big people. We must not be satisfied with just having a country of our own. We must prove that we still possess the force that once gave the world moral law and social laws. Our relations with other peoples must be pervaded by the spirit of peace and by the spirit of the Jewish nation which, after a small pause of 2,000 years, has come home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: After a Small Pause | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Tony conceded that his year at Kent School had loosened him up. Said he: "The spirit at Kent is terrific. I learned to take my shirttail out of my trousers, so to speak, and let it dangle." He had even learned to call his teachers Jack, Chuck and Bill-something that would have been considered scandalous at Radley College, his English school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Thirst | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...trouble is that in its Tarkington-esque aspects, the show is completely lacking in genuine remembrance, ease and spontaneity. The cyclists are pretty to look at, but as artificially gay in spirit as so many madrigal singers. As a Midwestern servant of the early 1900s, Pearl Bailey is about as believable as Salvador Dali's autobiography, but she does whatever she does with such queenly conviction and emphasis that she is by all odds the best thing in the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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