Word: soul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the earliest days. He essayed heroism in the Spanish War, being of the stuff of his father, who dreamed dreams of heroism in the Civil War and spun tales of visualized if not actual valor. Then Anderson became a manufacturer. He owned a factory. In a factory, the soul is destroyed, but before destruction sets in, the soul is puzzled. Mr. Anderson asked his soul a few questions and received clear answers. He put on his hat and coat one morning and left office, town, personality, responsibilities. His soul, artistic, forced him to forego the more bitter obligations...
Life for Max Keezer, famed vender of second hand clothes in Harvard Square, is filled with sadness for the present and vain regrets for the past, it was revealed yesterday when he unburdened his soul to a sympathetic CRIMSON candidate...
...missionaries of religion nor have we been able to understand their usefulness. But they are being exported in ever increasing shiploads. A prominent Indian educator once said that America will do well to send shiploads of "life savers" and distribute them freely instead of sending the army of "soul savers." These latter should be given more opportunity to serve their fellow men in the states where they are most needed to help the cause of prohibition and such other civilizing laws...
...rarely genuine. Man must be free of worries, physical as well as mental, to be able to weigh the appeals of the foreign gospels and thus make a really voluntary choice. All other conversions are numerically valuable but spiritually worthless. Such material conversions can do nothing for the soul of the converts. The souls of Indian people can only be saved by education that is capable of revolutionizing her and feeding her sons and daughters with great enlightening truths that progressive Americans have inherited and discovered...
Instead of spending millions of dollars in supporting the exported soul-savers and their families, will it not be desirable that the enlightened Americans revise their ideas of soul and its salvation and see that by merely converting large numbers of starving Indians to Christianity they are saving only bodies? Such "relief work" in the famine stricken areas of that poor country is undoubtedly commendable. As long as India is politically in bondage and hence unable to handle her problems of artificial famines, she will have to depend upon the generosity of other nations to protect her millions from starvation...