Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the British are today more popular in India than ever before. Little more than ten years since Britain's viceroy ruled in New Delhi, British residents in India are more numerous (40,000) than they were in the last days of Empire, and, thanks to the new spirit of equality, enjoy far pleasanter relations with their Indian colleagues. As for the Indians themselves, they show surprisingly little resentment of the fact that Britons still control 80% of all foreign investments in India, own a majority (64%) of India's tea industry and a quarter of the vital...
...Leonard S. ("Luke") Hobbs, 61, one of the world's top aviation engineers, will retire next April as vice chairman of United Aircraft Corp. Wyoming-born Luke Hobbs, an engineering graduate of Texas A. & M., designed the carburetor for Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. As chief engineer for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, which grew into United's engine division in 1935, he developed the R-2800 Double Wasp, workhorse engine of World War II, and the R-4360 Wasp Major, most powerful aircraft piston engine ever made. Pratt & Whitney was a late starter with postwar jets...
...nuclear warfare, simply cannot afford to allow a noble form of life to be needlessly slaughtered. Morel has learned his respect for dignity in a hard school-a Nazi concentration camp, whose philosophical commandant well understood that National Socialism was a materialist revolution aimed at man's spirit. In the name of this spirit, Morel takes up the cause of the vanishing elephant...
...along with the Third Avenue "El" and Lincoln Square, this world is to yield to progress. But it will take longer to vanquish the hurdy-gurdy spirit of the pushcart markets, Robert Moses notwithstanding...
...enough, by Mr. John Briston Sullivan. J.B. Sullivan has purchased this option on the land, and would undoubtedly exercise it if the plan materialized, forcing the MDC to purchase the area from him if the industrialization project were approved. It is an open question whether Mr. Sullivan's civic spirit will persist when it comes to setting the price at which the MDC will have...