Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt Field in a Ryan monoplane at 7:52 a. m., May 20, 1927 to fly nonstop to Paris. He carried 425 gal. of fuel, four sandwiches, two canteens of water, army emergency rations. Sitting on a gasoline tank, seeing through a periscope, Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis to Le Bourget Field in 33½ hr., landed to receive such acclaim as had been given no private citizen before or since...
...which poured in on him from the ends of the earth. Because a handful of St. Louis businessmen had backed him with $15,000, he sent his trophies to the Missouri Historical Society, which housed them in a wing of the Jefferson Memorial at Forest Park. St. Louis. The Spirit of St. Louis he sent to Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
Whether the punishment of the officers of the Lampoon and the padlocking of their building in this particular instance was justifiable, depends upon the spirit in which the parody issue was written. If it had as its purpose the satirizing of what was considered an extravagant, puerile magazine, its outdoing of Esquire should not be considered smut. But if the issue was put out for the purpose of filling the coffers of the Lampoon, the administration would not deserve condemnation...
Even a casual reading of the report should show one that it was written in neither a belligerent nor an impertinent spirit. It was self-evident to the Committee that Mr. Leighton and his staff not only comprehend thoroughly the significance of the questions discussed but are working hard to solve them. The intention behind the report is cooperative; that of presenting an accurate and constructive Freshman viewpoint for consideration in the formation of any policies...
...craftsman, telling what materials he used and how he used them," the book sheds light on the material basis of art, which is seldom illuminated in the schools. Formal education in art, as currently merchanted by the professor, leaves one with the impression that art is an etherial spirit abiding in the empyrean, far from the vulgarities of matter. Mr. Laurie is professor of Chemistry to the Royal Academy of Arts, so it is his especial duty to remind the artist and his public of the limits beyond which painting cannot pass: canvas and pigment, for example. Such a reminder...