Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale threatened almost always; Harvard never, really, even once; but time and again, with his back to its wall and with the Bulldog's teeth almost on his throat, John Harvard yanked himself away and, by sheer fighting spirit, denied the New Haven warrior his due."--Melville E. Webb Jr., Boston Globe...
...football season is over, and Harvard is proud of the team which, under the able leadership of Captain Cheek, has faced the vicissitudes of fortune with an equal display of good sportsmanship and unflagging spirit. The Yale game of 1925 will long be remembered in Harvard annals to the crowning glory of that team which would not be daunted by jeers, criticism, overwhelming odds, and even defeats...
...Occident today must better exemplify to the Orient the Christianity it professes. It must deal justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God; it must produce a cleaner journalism, less concerned with details of crime and more with the essence of the Christ-spirit so evident in our philanthropies and in the growth of our service and social conscience in community, state and Nation...
...Chamberlain's Speech. "My Lord Mayor, thanks to your hospitality I have drunk tonight of your loving cup with the German Ambassador. What we have done this evening may the nations do tomorrow. We will work in the spirit of Locarno. . . . I am confident that the Locarno accords will be ratified by every country there represented. No statesman dare take the responsibility before history of dashing from our lips the cup of hope that Locarno has presented!" Continuing amid applause, he concluded, "I . . . hope that the same spirit of mutual understanding and mutual goodwill which prevailed . . . at Locarno...
...Philippe Barrès, son of Maurice Barrès (late author-orator) then defined the spirit of the new Fascism as "Faith in France . . . and a deep disgust with parliamentarianism." Declared M. Georges Valois, Nationalist economist: "Our work will be . . . to suppress parliament and give a leader to the national state. . . . In replacing the parliamentary form of government, only one of two new forms is possible-Communism or Fascism. Can there be any choice? . . . The financial recovery of France can be accomplished only by a dictator of finances, who, it is easy to perceive, must be necessarily a political...