Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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National Chairman Raskob received from one W. H. Ridgeway, of San Antonio, Tex., an "appeal to your spirit of sportsmanship.'' Mr. Ridgeway thought that Nominee Hoover was going to carry "every State in the Union except Louisiana, Mississippi. Georgia and South Carolina" (The Literary Digest's straw vote predicted that Nominee Hoover would carry Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina). He asked Mr. Raskob to get these States to ''fall in line" and "make it unanimous...
...Spirit and Letter of Contracts," Professor Cabot, Emerson...
...make clear that in spite of his meagre chances of election Mr. Thomas' candidacy was valuable from the standpoint of education and as a militant publicity for aspects of government often neglected. The CRIMSON takes this opportunity of reaffirming this conviction and pointing to its agreement with the spirit of the preceding letter...
...Bureaucracy does not tolerate the spirit of independence; it spreads the spirit of submission into our daily life and penetrates the temper of our people not with the habit of powerful resistance to wrong but with the habit of timid acceptance of irresistible might...
...Moth biplane; between Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, and the Eastern Hemisphere. Lieutenant Commander MacDonald set out at noon of Oct. 17 in a plane which had a cruising radius of 3,600 miles, which had a wing spread 20 feet shorter than Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis; which, like Lindbergh's plane, carried no radio apparatus, toted no pontoons, but had one 80-100 h. p. motor (Lindbergh's developed 200 h. p.). Unlike Lindbergh, MacDonald was no veteran air-mailman, parachute-jumper, stuntist. Last May MacDonald made one round trip from...