Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact the case, namely, a man with scientific and engineering training approaching the problem of increasing the assurance of peace; a mind of extraordinary power and penetration focussing itself, in the manner which is its normal lifetime habit, on the work of analyzing the problem in a scientific spirit, identifying the forces that make for peace and those that make for war, and estimating how the former may be so stimulated and directed as to prevail over the latter--in short, how to bring it about that the forces making for peace shall prevail over those making...
...used those words in a spirit of admiration. I have all respect for the patience of the Negro race. I think it is something we white people might learn from Negroes. We'd be much happier...
...with the flowers of Anatolia, than's to the vigor of their healthy bodies, transported munitions in our time of need, to consecrate themselves to the pursuit of a vigorous physique. We want them ... to exhale the perfume of the flowers of our mountains, and to reflect the spirit of economy and sobriety...
...first championship he went home to Sedalia, Mo., where he had become proficient during long sleepy days when, if you were not playing pool at the smoke house, there was nothing to do but count the cars on Ohio Street, or go down to the station to watch the Spirit of St. Louis come in from New York, or lean against the window of Bards drug store, waiting for something to happen. He started a poolroom of his own, but found few customers. Moving to St. Louis, he opened another place, with metal tables in it, but the balls made...
...Gerald Norman Jr. did not play in last week's national junior indoor tennis championship. Their applications were rejected without explanation by U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. That made the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People write a protest: "Unfair, unsportsmanlike . . .calculated to degrade the sport . . . spirit of caste and class snobbery. ..." Meanwhile, in a Manhattan armory the best white tennis players between 16 and 18 played for the championship, hitting the ball so that the shots boomed like explosions. Boys under 16 played for the boy's title, tapping their shots back and forth...