Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mahatma or Great Soul seemed to twist around his scrawny finger last week the United Kingdom Government, some 220,000.000 Hindus of all castes (from exalted Brahmins to debased Untouchables) and even the ramrod-stiff British...
Death still hovered over the fragile body (which had lost a pound a day for six days) when Mr. Gandhi ended his hunger strike by saying a prayer, quavering a hymn of joy, sipping an ounce or two of orange juice and exclaiming weakly "Satyagraha [Soul Force] has triumphed...
...Vagabond has always been a sensitive soul, disliking abrupt contrasts. The annual transition from vacation to college jars his equilibrium, and the divine aflatus is wanting. Besides, when one has to come a week in advance, and dwell in the midst of the desert that is Harvard before registration . . . . The rising splendor of Memorial Chapel, and Eliot House blossoming forth with its new shrubbery, are not enough. The great days are still vivid, and what is to come is yet unsure. The Vagabond greets his clan, and asks their indulgence for another day. Perhaps the spectacle of the incoming Freshmen...
...Patrick's rector, who said: "You are fellow citizens with the saints. . . . There is no one that we welcome with more outstretched arms than we do you." They heard Bishop Dunn read a cablegram of blessing from Pope Pius XI, adding "I am thrilled to my very soul. . . ." Then the 4,000 Negroes went to a communion breakfast at the Palm Garden, Eighth Avenue...
...finally the Home Loan Bank system have all been designed to preserve the independence of millions of little bourgeois kings in their little bourgeois castles. Herbert Hoover believes that, besides helping business, protecting and promoting the small home is good for the individualistic integrity of the citizens, for the soul of the nation...