Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discouraging part of the whole matter is that those in charge of the affairs of the Glee Club seem to be satisfied to act according to the spirit. They are blind to the high desirability of conducting the extra mural relations of the Glee Club in a spirit of courtesy and good sportsmanship. Mr. Fleer's letter provides an excellent illustration of my point where he says...
...feel very happy about the entirely new spirit that has come with the abolition of compulsion. In the recent past, daily services were worse than a joke-blasphemy under the name of religion. The men would cough, read books and magazines and talk with one another. Even during the Sunday services . . . there was always the feeling that the lid might blow off at any time. . . . I would rather have 50 interested men coming here willingly than 1,500 coming because they have to and sitting through the services mad." Thus Rev. Roy B. Chamberlain, writing last week in the Boston...
...Russia's renouncing of all rights in the little country of Esthonia, and the declaration of the crarist treaty with Great Britain to divide Persia between the two countries as void, are typical examples of the spirit of justice and brotherhood embodied in the foreign policy. This mode of action is a real advance and not nearly so nebulous as the League of Nations or the World Court. The same spirit has been exhibited toward Turkey in the action of the Soviet, in leaving the choice of mandatory or occupation up to Turkey and the small Mohammedan countries...
...years before Moses, by Hammurabi (the Amraphel of Genesis XIV); Jehu, King of Israel (2 KI, IX); bowing in submission to an Assyrian conqueror; Sennacherib on his fateful Palestinian campaign (2 Kl, XVIII; Isa, XXXVI); the Assyrian story of the Deluge, parallel to Genesis VI IX,; an Assayrian protecting spirit, with the body of a lion, wings of an eagle, horns of a bull, and head of man, similar to the composite creatures described by Ezekiel, Assyrian war scenes and practices, hunting scenes of Assumbanipal, the Sardanapalus of Classic writers...
Pride is the historical constant of the United States Senate. All generation of Senators from Clay and Webster, through Douglas and Seward, Aldrich and Allison, Lodge, LaFollette, and Penrose, have bequeathed this spirit of independence. It is as permanent as the snuff-boxes on the wall, of which Mr. Lowry writes, "Probably no Senator has taken snuff since Millard Fillmore's day, but it is the duty of the Sergeant-at-Arms to keep those two boxes freshly filed...