Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...only policy that is open to labor when it has to meet conditions in which there are more men than jobs. Moreover, labor realizes that if it wishes to make headway with the Republican Congress, put in by an electorate that is manifesting an increasing spirit of conservatism, it must appeal to fairness and reason rather than wield the big stick...
...same hands that are now so busy tearing down and defiling the national emblem of America's greatest ally and would-be warmest friend were the busiest in their endeavors to frustrate America's own efforts in the Great War. The same spirit tramples the Union Jack in a New York gutter that stoned American soldiers on their way to fight for America's safety beyond the seas...
...tales of James's go, these here collected have it surprise. Though not the work of a youth they have the zest of a story teller just prodding in his stock, a spirit, however, which James maintained throughout his life. They are surprising in that they are told with the extremest clarity and simplicity of phrasing, and are in that way models for structure...
...Congressional ruling regarding military prisoners. Formerly sailors who had served a sentence at Portsmouth could not return to the service and were thrown on their recources, branded criminals often for offences of comparatively slight importance. Commander Osborne, however, secured a channel for pardons, and instilling into his men a spirit of good citizenship, sent 2700 of them back into the service, after shortened terms, during his three years in office. A very small proportion of these men, despite the prejudice in the service toward them were returned, while many rendered valuable service to the country...
...Princeton; for this afternoon the entire undergraduate body marched to the station in a drizzling rain to meet the team on its return from Gedney Farms where it has been since last Saturday. This demonstration was the largest in the history of Yale football and shows the wonderful spirit which prevails at New Haven in spite of the recent defeat...