Word: soul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stated, "but I think we may say that it is the determination to look beyond the things of sense in this perplexing world of change, of becoming, and of decay, with the conviction that behind it all there are abiding realities of youth, beauty, and goodness which the soul may grasp when it realizes its heavenly origin. It is the soul which is alive, not the body. It lives in the world of the ideas. These are more potent than acts. As Marcus Aurelius puts it, The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make...
...most intimate part of one's nature. People enjoy stories chiefly because they can make themselves the heroes; one's imagination permits one to undergo every hardship, every triumph. The result is that no one can read 'The Toilers of the Sea" without reflecting some of the grandeur of soul of the hero, nor "Man and Superman" without acquiring some of the leading man's delightful emotional immunity...
Gandhi was arrested in 1922 and charged with sedition, for which he received a sentence of six years' imprisonment. His policy was noncoöperation; his creed, "The power of the soul." His policy was designed to fight the British Raj; his creed, to make Hindus worthy of self-government...
...Bacon, noting his ample fore-head.) My lord Bacon's soul lodgeth well...
...problems of the Actopels, an ordinary middle-class family, were always true to life and generally funny. Pa, bent with thirty years of toil, has just been made head bookkeeper at the plant --the heart and soul of Cranetown. Horace, the eldest son, has married and is doing well in the export department, while studying psychology by mail. Dolores, his wife and her mother-in-law's echo, is learning to cook. His brother Gordon is on the eve of realizing his ambition: a Phi Beta Kappa Key at the Mid-State University and a job in the teller...