Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pinched today. But it is a choice of evils. We must overflow elsewhere or blow up in Europe. We can perhaps hold out longer than other peoples who have little to go on because, although the Almighty gave Italy little, He provided plenty of sunshine and an Italian spirit that can stand much privation...
...rousing speech was a pledge of peculiar interest to Geneva statesmen who, while feeling that the League must save its face by voting "sanctions," desperately hope these will not provoke II Duce to war in Europe. The Dictator pledged, "To economic sanctions we shall answer with our discipline, our spirit of sacrifice, our obedience." This of course was topped with the characteristic Mussolini smash, "to military sanctions we shall answer with Militarism! To acts of war we shall answer with...
Tsar Boris, addressing an Army review as scheduled, cried grandiloquently: "Bulgaria must remain an independent country, for which the Army is the principal guarantee as long as it remains true to the spirit of its ancestors...
...commission expanded to 36 members -bishops, ministers, laymen-when the Methodist Church, South accepted an invitation to join and the Methodist Protestant Church begged to be allowed to collaborate too. In their labors the united commission, according to Secretary John William Langdale. "achieved a unity of mind and spirit which may be prophetic of the unification of the three communions" (TIME, Aug. 26). The new Hymnal, now to be official for 8,000,000 Methodists, was published last week. It contains 210 new hymns, 206 new tunes. The numbers of hymns by Methodism's greatest hymnists, Charles and John...
...atmosphere of a typical German student club, ceremonials and customs, quite foreign to us, but serving to give a clearer comprechension of a very typical side of the German student's life, have been introduced, particularly in the less formal part of the meeting, and have caused a spirit of good fellowships and the famous Gomuetlichkeit to provail. In addition, joint meetings with the Radcliffe club and several beer-garden dances have proved successful outside activities. In all of its work, the Club is entirely non-political...