Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest that it evokes among graduates, friends, and other supporters; with newspapers devoting expert analysts, feature writers, and photographers; with the coaching staff and retainers of each side numbering scores of men, any movement, any word uttered, any picture published, is apt to result in a violation of the spirit at least of the agreement. Under the circumstances, a football coach cannot look at a newspaper, he cannot talk to friends, he cannot read his mail, for fear of finding out something about the opposing team. The mere presence of a Harvard man at Yale during the fall is enough...
Physicist Compton. The freshwater College of Wooster, Ohio, gave Professor Compton his early training in science; his father, Professor Elias Compton (philosophy) at Wooster, gave him the spirit; and his older (by five years less four days) brother, Professor Karl Taylor Compton (physics) at Princeton was his pacemaker. Arthur Holly took his doctor of philosophy degree at Princeton while Karl Taylor was assistant professor of physics there...
Leaving Philadelphia to keep a promise, he darted toward Long Island where he had pledged his presence at a charity air circus. As he slid neatly to earth, the frantic crowd broke police lines, swooped toward his plane. With the mob spirit hurling those in front straight to death in the still whirling propeller blades, Col. Lindbergh threw wide the throttle; wheeled the roaring plane just in time; flew away a lifesaver; lighted on an adjoining field...
...wide woman draped in metal cloth who fluttered on at the Palace, bowed low as if for great applause, smiling. Now, at 62, there was little voice, little vitality for a Troubadour song, for d'Hardelet's "Lesson of the Fan," for "Swanee River" and "The Spirit of the Air," words and music by herself, dedicated to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. "L'amour est une oiseau rebelle. . . ." The customers at the Palace sat alert for the "Habanera" of the World's Greatest Carmen, but the high comb would not stay in the thin bobbed hair...
...dedication of the memorial to Percy D. Haughton on Saturday Dean Briggs pictured him with a characteristically happy phrase as a man "unquenchable in spirit, irresistible in command, feared, loved, and honored by all." These are the qualities that make a coach great to the men whom he has in his charge, and there is no one whose judgment is of more worth. The corroboration of the words of Dean Briggs comes from the hundreds of men who worked beneath Percy Haughton at Harvard and elsewhere. All these qualities he had in abundance, and such was his affection for football...