Word: soul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mere detail of giving a letter to non-athletes is of minor importance. But the clamoring for "recognition" indicates that too many institutions are tainted by that smallness of soul which regards outward display more than inward satisfaction. The colleges should be the first to realize that a "cum laude" without power is irony. Their ideal should be the spirit of true craftsmanship, the desire to do something, not for a specious reward, but for the sake of doing...
Diana is brought back to normalcy by the spectacle of the tragedy of Sheila. Finally she acquires a complete new soul by the convenient expedient of falling in love with Lloyd Haitian d, a somewhat insistently high-minded young lawyer, through whose disapproving eyes the author watches most of the iniquitous pageant of hip-flasks and jazz...
Another move toward faith-healing is taken by formal action of the Episcopal Church. The Medical Committee appointed at Portland last September was headed by Dr. Edward S. Cowles, director of the Park Avenue "body and soul" hospital. Announcement is now made that the " National Association for the Advancement of Scientific Healing," has been formed with Dr. Cowles at the head. Its motto is mens sana in corpore sano. Officers are William G. McAdoo, George Gordon Battle, Samuel Untermyer, Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Rev. J. Howard Melish. Thomas A. Price is Secretary and Edward H. Coy (captain and fullback...
...such feeble taunt can be flung at Percy Haughton's kind of football. His advent means that a number of Columbia's young men are going to submit to iron discipline, to a harsh cenobitic rule, for the upbuilding of the corporate over-soul. That is a fine thing in this selfish age. New York Times...
...Root calls attention to the widespread misuse of leisure, particularly among those who have recently acquired it. In a world in which the workman no longer has the joy of "perfecting his works" but merely the delight of pulling a lever 897 times an hour, he must save his soul in his leisure time if he is to save it at all. His difficulty at present is that he would rather lose his soul than his spare time. And Mr. Root says he can't have both...