Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...country are peculiarly dependent on the people. We make and enforce our laws. Hence we must be law-abiding. When a body of men loses its respect for law, it endangers the stability of society. Disregard for law, however, is but one of the many manifestations of the underlying spirit of trade unionism--a spirit which seeks to create caste, to create clique interests, to assert the superior importance of trade unions, and to set their interests above the interests of all other parties...
...time of '86-'87 in which the Monthly was launched with high hopes and ambitions, and the time of '95-'96 in which again there seemed to be an overplus of writers so brilliant that editors in chief could hardly set their standards too high. Between these periods the spirit of literature has sometimes seemed to nap, and the offerings to the editors have not seemed bursting with the promise of a new epoch of letters in America...
...Boston Industrial Home, an institution at which tramps are given food and shelter in return for work. About twelve men are teaching in the Chinese Sunday School on Beacon Hill. Chinamen come there at first to learn the English language but a large number of them, attracted by the spirit of the place, continue to come back for the religious teaching of the school. Through the Boston Children's Aid Society other men are meeting groups of children, usually in some room of a tenement house, for an hour or so each week--to read to them, play games...
...substitutes who were put in during the latter part of the game, played with a spirit all the more creditable because it was in the face of defeat...
...Yale, and the failure on the part of the coaches to recognize early in the season the capabilities of the team contributed largely to the defeat. It seemed that the team work of the eleven during the game arose from the exigencies of the situation and the determined spirit of the individual players rather than from coaching in team play...