Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessity to assuage the American thirst for novelty is the parent of this new indoor spirit--Radio Hypnosis. Suppose, however, that it were more than a Vaudeville Act and that by chance the enterprising Radiologist of WBZ had inadventently disclosed a pearl in the newly cracked oyster...
...House of Commons fiery Laborite J. J. Jones cried: "The miners at Cwm received Baldwin in the proper spirit...
...assert themselves before the younger lion of righteousness arrived, or perhaps to prepare for him a fitting atmosphere of holiness. Or perhaps they were truly indignant with no thought of Pittsburgh as the northern capital of Fundamentaland. Whatever the reason, ten Pittsburgh ministers left no churchman dubious, about the spirit that was in them when, last fortnight, they evoked a Pittsburgh Sunday-closing law dating from 1794 and protested loudly to their city's "safety director" that two Sunday concerts, planned by the newly-formed Pittsburgh civic symphony orchestra, would constitute that horrid thing, "a menace to public morals...
...radio jazz on Sundays in Pittsburgh, against which there had been no organized protest, had seemed to indicate that Sunday symphony concerts might be no more pernicious. Few Pittsburghers stopped to consider that a Beethoven symphony or even a Debussy suite might contain more of the stuff of the spirit than a Moody & Sankey hymn...
...spirit of Harvard is wonderfully permanent in spite of the great variety of views, opinions, and practices in public and private life on the part of its graduates the same identical spirit, the same purpose to do one's best to serve human welfare throughout our country...