Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frank proposal to extend military training, compulsory so far as possible, and under the management and control of the War Department, to public schools and colleges throughout the United States. This at a time when, perhaps in all world history, it is most important to avoid stimulating the war spirit...
Before 1914, when Italy was struggling to imitate her sister imperialists, the cry for a reincarnated Roman state followed each slight success. It followed the slow conquest of Tripoli, won after defeats at the hands of native troops, such as Caucasians have seldom undergone. It fed itself on the spirit of nationalism and a tariff to create industry. But up to the war, poverty remained the characteristic feature of the Italian state...
TIME'S advertising copywriter prudently employed quotation marks around the verb "debauch," thereby earmarking his use of it in a playful holiday spirit, well suited to the mood of vacationists able to see their sights or leave them alone as Subscriber Robinn advises...
...nation, can profit only by the disarmament of her potential foes, the German delegation had every incentive to further the proceedings at Geneva last week and made good use of its opportunities?Herr von Bernstorff declaring, for example, that the German foreign policy "is now completely dominated by the spirit of Locarno...
...orator he dramatizes himself. He is the Church for his people and the Church is he There is no incongruity when he says: "And you, my people, who today become my sons and daughters, children of the great family committed to my care! The Divine Spirit sent me to be the pastor of your souls...