Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointments are accompanied by parallel advantages. The incumbents would be enabled to accomplish work of a pioneering character. For this reason it is possible that able men from other institutions would be attracted to Cambridge by the new professorships. Since the experiment is one conceived in a liberal spirit and designed to meet a definite need, it should not be thwarted by any difficulties of detail...
...unemployed. . . . The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral distintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. ... I am not willing that the vitality of our people be further sapped by the giving of cash, of market baskets, of a few hours of weekly work cutting grass, raking leaves or picking up papers in the public parks...
Last month in Manhattan in answer to the uneasy rumbling voiced by businessmen at a Congress of American Industry, Donald Richberg taunted: "Unless the businessmen of America have been shell-shocked into nervous impotence, there must come a time when they will respond to the fighting spirit of that old admiral who signaled, 'Damn the torpedoes. Go ahead...
...musician's environment and the effect of his heritage on his compositions and behaviour. He portrays the strong influence of the orthodox character of the senior Mendelsohn on his son's education, the fight against the Jewish faith and its consequent reaction after becoming protestant, and the guiding spirit of the great Goothe with a comprehensive touch which can only be given by a writer who knows his subject
Weakened in numbers but valiant in spirit, the Harvard quintet meets Tufts tonight up at Medford, for the first game since vacation. The Jumbos having lost to B.U., should fall a prey to the Crimson five, and the game is regarded more as a test under fire for the new five than as a desperate bid for victory...