Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fundamental reason for Colgate's success in athletics has not been proselyting, but is directly attributable to the Colgate motto, "Every Colgate man in something, and some Colgate man in everything," which is the foundation upon which the famous Colgate spirit is based, and to the fact that, right or wrong, those in power are to be respected...
...same spirit of national discipline and self-sacrifice, which earned for the few thousand inhabitants of the small Greek city state an enduring place in history is being reproduced by 67 millions of what are in some ways the most intelligent, industrious and high spirited and hardy people in the world. None among them is more Spartan than Hitler...
...modern world. It seems transported directly from the stately charnal-vaults of Chartres. Dimly, along the shadow-filled edges of the room, great banks of books may be seen, arousing in one a sense of the immensity of knowledge and of its intangibility. In this atmosphere one feels the spirit of the venerable Bede, who completed his biblical translation--despite failing eyesight--by candlelight in his cell at Jarrow. Great indeed is the library that fosters this passionate self-forgetfulness...
...spirit of vast good will James Aloysius Farley invited the employes of the Post Office Department in Washington to a handshaking bee. The staff lined up, began filing past their beaming boss. To each the Postmaster General wished a cheery "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year," or, if the employe beat him to that, a jovial "The same to you." At the 500 mark the Farley handshake and greeting had grown automatic. The 1,000th guest found him shaking feebly, speaking thickly. Employe No. 1,089 was a young woman who gigglingly exclaimed : "So you are the Postmaster General?" Mumbled...
...appear before you as president of the Edison Electric Institute . . . representing a very large proportion of the electrical current generated in this country. I do not come in any spirit of antagonism, but I am filled with anxiety over the grave crisis which now confronts this industry, and in this state of mind I reflect the opinion of the many thousands of persons employed throughout the land by this industry . . . and by a multitude of investors who see the safety of their life savings in jeopardy...