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Word: spirited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upshot: a resolution in which the painters accused themselves of possessing a "spirit of decadence and bourgeois estheticism." All promised to reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Taking No Chances | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...what remains of the squad shows the do-or-die spirit that usually characterizes any Yale game, the Crimson may yet emerge a winner tonight. HARVARD YALE Minot l2 Moher Key c wood McKean rw Ritz Washburn ld Wlch Greeley rd soper Lavalle g Burns

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Injury-Ridden Sextet Makes Long Jaunt to Yale Tonight | 3/6/1948 | See Source »

Would it not be more in the spirit of free inquiry to suspend these rallies until the colleges have held a series of open meetings or debates. At such open hearings all three points of view could be offered and compared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curb ERP Ballyhoo | 3/2/1948 | See Source »

...renounced his U.S. citizenship and become a "citizen of the world." He was living over a pigsty, working as a bricklayer for a German construction company. Said he: "Now that I am no longer allied with [national interests] ... I feel I can come closer to the true spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 1, 1948 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Form & the Spirit. Most of last week Benes remained aloof. Since war's end his country's foreign policy has been made in Moscow, but the republic has maintained the forms, and most of the freedoms, of a parliamentary democracy -even with a Red Premier. The Communists got only the 38% voice in government their 38% of the vote allotted them. But at week's end the non-Communist cabinet ministers, having failed to budge Nosek with their boycott, had laid the crisis in Benes' lap by resigning their posts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: And Now, the Czechs | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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