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Word: spirits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bock, however, this is the wrong type of exercise, and does not supply the mental and nervous relaxation which is one of the principal objects of the requirement. Further, the present program offers "expert guidance by coaches in developing bodily skills, opens avenues for wider acquaintances, and fosters the spirit of cooperation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Waiters Will Exercise But Yardlings Free for Exams | 4/14/1936 | See Source »

Contrary to the impression received by the Editor, all factions in our rapidly growing membership have shown a spirit of compromise consistent with the principles of rigid parliamentary procedure. To quote two phrases from the editorial, the Harvard Student Union is showing itself to be an organization in which the "the real political beliefs of Harvard students" can "find adequate means of expression." Bruce O. Bliven, Jr. '37 Robert J. Cumming '38 Lawrence S. Levy '39 Robert S. Chafee '36 G.B. Mayberry 1G D. Boone Schirmer '37 Robert S. Brainerd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 4/14/1936 | See Source »

Mayor Hilary E. Howse quavered: "Colonel Lea hasn't lost a friend. By the spirit of 'Old Hickory' Jackson, by the Eternal, he has made new friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 13, 1936 | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...political organization which hopes for support from the majority of Harvard students must fight to maintain a spirit of non-partisanship against all comers. The inevitable attempt at a radical coup d'etat should be ground under foot at its first budding, and the obvious failure of political bodies here in past years has been their inability to show this resistance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNITED WE FALL | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...clever joke relieving the midwinter monotony on Prospect Street. It rapidly expanded to two hundred posts with twenty-two thousand members. Gold Star Mothers and Foreign Correspondents of Future Wars were invented. Buttonholed pedestrians on New York streets jovially contributed quarters. But it was all in the same hilarious spirit, and eagerly backed up by a press that is always ready to play up any college joke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A STIFF UPPER LIP | 4/11/1936 | See Source »

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