Word: spiritedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Missionaries. Christmas spirit was, of course, zealously upheld in many a foreign land by 12,283 U. S. missionaries?8,363 in Asia, 2,160 in Latin America, 1,689 m Africa, 71 in Australia and Oceanica...
...this foundation, the author builds a singularly pungent tale of ship yards, cotillions, the rigours of a mid-winter passage of the Horn, the frenzy of the Gold Rush, the economics of the China Trade--in short, the spirit of those adventuresome times...
...comprehension of the greater movements in which he took part is generally slim. And so it seems here that Mr. Morris' interpretation of Whitman is of an elementary nature not to be ranked along side that of younger critics who have been close to their subject only in spirit...
Bermuda with its tropic warmth and transported British Christmas cheer is a very pleasant picture to anticipate. But in any clime Christmas itself isn't such a bad idea. With the prospect of his own vacation right before him, the Vagabond is in no mood to moralize about the spirit of Christmas, or anything else, for that matter. But he does feel cheerio about the day, about the whole season. Since that is tantamount to a confession of old fashioned sentimentality, the Vagabond is willing to go the whole ways. He sincerely greets all his friends with...
...with every possible stage of development along the lines which they are following. That is, machines of every stage will be working there for the students to examine and understand thoroughly. Thus instead of being forced to read or examine diagrams on these subjects, they may get into the spirit of what they are doing by dealing with the machines themselves, and this may be an added spur to further research. In a word, the students at this new school are to learn in practice what is now taught in theory...