Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Falcon has been restyled into a sporty car for the family man with Mustang spirit but too many kids for bucket seats. It is almost three inches longer (184.3 in.) than the '65 version, has a long Mustang hood and a Mustang-like dropped-off trunk lid. To the Mustang-styled Falcon Futura line, a new sports coupe has been added, with wide bucket seats, 14-inch wheels and the standard Mustang engine. The Chevy II, which G.M, almost abandoned when compact sales began slumping, is lower and wider...
...granite and ice." So energetic New Englanders, making an economic virtue out of a geographical necessity, harvested their rocky hills and frozen ponds, virtually created the markets for their products, shipped granite to Savannah and New Orleans, ice to Persia, India and Australia. The same restless and ingenious spirit drove New England manufacturers who developed specialized machines to replace unspecialized men, ensured the prosperity of the mobile American who could "make anything, do anything, go anywhere...
Along with national geography and national spirit, there was also the search for a national polity. In the early years that polity was imperial. Established by an act of secession from the British Empire, the U.S. early acquired territorial possessions in the West and in them exercised the prerogatives of empire. The U.S. averted the threat of secondary secessions by a stroke of political genius: orderly incorporation that transformed territories into states...
Some one yelled "Rats!" at the game with Wesleyan Saturday. We have advocated a change to a rational spirit of earnestness in college matters, but we never intended to encourage any one to commit a breach of etiquette, as that outburst unmistakeably was. --Reprinted in its entirety from the CRIMSON...
...studying education scientifically. It is the latter enterprise, after all, that is, and should be, our basic concern. Whether we have one or many sciences, whether or not any of these is specifically a science of education, is irrelevant to the possibility of studying education in a scientific spirit. And the fact is that this possibility can be, and is being, realized in diverse ways, in accordance with various research models and investigative styles...