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Word: spirits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originated, I believe, among the darkies of the South and the correct phrasing-without dialect-is "spirit and image." It was originally used in speaking of some person whose father or mother had passed on-and the colored folks would say-"the very spi't an' image of his daddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...back. In particular it did not deny the effusive speech attributed to him at a Klan klorero after the unsolicited card had reached him. Most of all it did not tell whether he joined the Klan out of hatred for non-Aryans, and later dropped it in a new spirit of tolerance, or whether he took one or both actions for political expediency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Living Room Chat | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

These consideration are among the most pressing in modern society, and have consequently been subjects of countless undergraduate discussions, held until now when the spirit moved three or four on the same occasion. With the presentation of Christian ideas as an introduction to a systematically governed debate on religious problems, personal and universal, undergraduates are now given an unpreccedented chance to let off steam to some effect. Insted of consistently avoiding these questions, Harvardmen may, if they will, take a vital interest in trying to understand and evaluate the faith of their fathers. As an instrument reminding students that there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "GETTING AND SPENDING . . . ." | 10/9/1937 | See Source »

...anyone," he predicted after he had sent his charges in, following a hard scrimmage. "Their spirit has greatly improved lately, and the squad is shaping up much better than was at first expected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLING ELEVEN MEETS EXETER IN ITS FIRST CLASH | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

...memory of a genial counselor, just as generous in his efforts as sage in his advice, nor can Harvard in particular forget the thirty years Mr. Perkins spent as Fellow, during which period he rose from the youngest of the Corporation to be its revered senior member and keenest spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOMAS NELSON PERKINS | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

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