Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conversation of several hours which was most cordial. In the course of this conversation they examined, one after another, all the problems which might interest the two countries ana they sought together the best means of assuring their solution in the interest of both France and Germany and the spirit of the treaties they then had signed...
Well pleased at the maneuvres, President von Hindenburg said: "I have seen today that the German army's traditional standard of spirit and skill has been preserved...
...will not join any other club, and any such pledge or promise, whether originating in misunderstanding or otherwise, shall not be binding upon such undergraduate or upon any of the said clubs agreeing thereto, but shall be regarded by everybody as null and void and contrary to the spirit of this agreement...
...least intrinsic element in that hope be considered the freedom which, probably for the first time, surrounds, becomes implanted in the mind and spirit of the Class of 1930. On the seal of Harvard University there is revealed the word, "Veritas"--Truth. And no matter how impressed by his new freedom any member of the Class of 1930 may be, he must realize directly and adequately that the price of his freedom is no more, no less than what is indicated by the word so distinctly emblazoned upon the seal of his university...
Courageous, chivalrous, when he ran for the first of his three Congressional terms seven years ago he talked from a wheel chair, said of his opponent: "No knightlier spirit than Edgar Watkins ever went to worthy combat or shivered lance at Camelot or Stirling." Himself lost in Camelot's misty lore, Knight Upshaw may often think in terms of questing a Holy Grail...