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Word: spirits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...improvements have been introduced this year by the head coach of class football. Practice is preceded each day by a half hour of concentrated drill for those who have never before played football. Thus expert instruction is made available to those whose spirit is willing but whose flesh is untutored. Present plans call also for the formation of teams graded by weight from the players left unplaced after the tentative determination of the class teams. The important result of all these forces is the fact that the class team system of this year insures every sound student in Harvard College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LUSTY ANSWERS | 10/5/1927 | See Source »

...before he left he- ¶ Addressed the American Legion in Paris. "I am authorized by law and by chance," he said, "to bring you the felicitations of the people of New York and to carry across the Atlantic their heart throbs that they may mingle with you in spirit. I want you to feel that your purposes will be their purposes, and to know that they are still rooting for you to give another lesson to the world of what a real 100% American is-God's greatest gift to mankind." ¶ Was received by President Doumergue of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Insouciance Abroad | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...Tannenberg showed the world again what German power was capable of under strong and definite leadership. May the heroic spirit of Tannenberg penetrate and unite our divided nation. Then it will achieve wonders and the brave men to whom this memorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tannenberg Monument | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...Last, but not least, discipline and efficiency have been restored in every branch of the administration, a new spirit of enterprise, hope and confidence has been unchained in the whole country. Great economies have been realized. Fifty per cent of all vacancies in the Army, Navy and Civil Services have been amortized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Decadent? | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...which was its virus the CRIMSON is only too ready to render honor where honor is due. No one denies that for the spectators the game is perhaps the most fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable of all athletic contests. Rhapsodies have been written about the tang of November twilights, the spirit of youth in friendly rivalry, the benefits of sport for sport's sake; and the fundamental theme is still as it always has been--true...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REBOUND | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

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