Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Despise with all your soul everything foreign, and be fanatical to the length of madness in your nationalism as an Egyptian...
Citing the powerful role that Christianity has played in the development of Western civilization, Professor Hocking claimed that through its emphasis on the individuality of the soul, the Medieval Church fostered the growing conception of political rights...
...nine months plus 149 days (the period a soul spends in purgatory) after the death of a Grand Lama, priests throughout the fastnesses of Central Asia watch for eclipses, earthquakes, avalanches, cloudbursts. Where such phenomena occur, the Lama's soul may, on the appointed day, enter the body of an infant about to be born. The mother may identify her holy offspring by other portents & miracles and by seven signs which include a full set of teeth in the babe, a birthmark resembling a tiger's stripes, an ability to utter the name of Buddha...
Worn from the harassing, soul-tearing phenomena of unrequited love, the travelling Vagabond felt the only exit from the influence of a blonde little charmer in Hawaii was to betake himself to the land of fighting cocks, frightened bulls, and frenzied brunettes--Mexico...
...tragedy is swift. In twelve days the lusty Diomede, Grecian Lothario, has won her heart and soul. Only once before, in Helen, had woman proved so faithless, yet never was woman so, pathetic as Cressida. In the heat of her remorse for what she had done to Troilus she swears she will at least be faithful to her new lover...