Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consciousness of economic well-being, backed by a pioneer spirit of economic enterprise is the foundation of present American prosperity, according to Kenneth Lindsay, Labor member of the English Parliament, who visited the University recently to speak at the Liberal Club...
...know that it would be useless to address invitations to certain institutions, the paper might still give its dinner, but its choice of an All-American team might seem some what disproportionate. Anyhow we hope the colleges themselves will reject these overtures as violations of the spirit for which intercollegiate football ought to stand. Boston Herald...
...musical verse still delights the lovers of poetry. Imprisonment for his part in the Revolution in 1642 could not quench his ardor nor still his lyre, and he sang unceasingly of his Aramantha or his Lucasta. His lyrics have all the freshness of the Elizabethan morning, and breathe the spirit of liberty that characterized his age and is the keynote of the work of such of his followers as Byron and Shelley...
...spirit of the early eighteenth-century Italian comedy will tread the boards of Brattle Hall on the evenings of December 6, 7, and 8, when the Dramatic Club will present "The Orange Comedy," an adaptation by Gilbert Seldes '14 from a comedy of Carlo Gozzi...
...large part, the present day controversy between Fundamentalists and Modernists is just this question of the spirit in which the Scriptures were written. Were they written purporting to set forth exact truth in all their details and meant to be accepted as such, or were there parts conceived in the spirit of figures of speech and designed to be taken in the same spirit? If one accepts the first view must he deny science; if one accepts the second, must he deny the Bible...