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Word: spirits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before a gathering of 100 at the Varsity Club yesterday noon Coach Dick Harlow praised the spirit of the football squad this spring and predicted a team for the coming season "of which the undergraduates would not need to be ashamed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harlow Predicts Success For 1935 Football Eleven | 4/18/1935 | See Source »

...contrary," continued the King, "the Amazulu people would consider it their highest compliment. If you'd go down to South Africa to visit them they'd probably make you a priestess, and someday perhaps worship your spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/17/1935 | See Source »

...were two crusty British civil servants long accustomed to telling Orientals what is best-Baron Lamington, onetime Governor of Bombay, and the Earl Peel whilom Secretary of State for India. As cables flashed off their remarks to Tokyo, provoking sharp retorts (see p. 24), 'other peers rebutted with spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Apr. 15, 1935 | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...these and all Thy mercies vouchsafed to us, 0 Father Almighty, we yield Thee unfeigned thanks; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with Thee in the Unity of the Holy Spirit be all honour and glory now and for evermore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Unfeigned Thanks | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...wrote Lucrezia Floriani, in which she appears as a motherly protectress and Chopin as an exquisite who was often jealous and rude. The break was Chopin's destruction. With Sand he had done his greatest work, courageously defying disease. Without her he was lost in body and spirit. Two years after she deserted him he was too weak to walk alone. His color was like parchment, his eyes sunken beyond recognition. When Death was near his one dread was that he might be buried alive. When Death came in 1849 his body was, as he wished, opened. His heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tragic Pole | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

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