Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brush Foundation. His first goal, and the purpose of his meticulous measurements of Cleveland children, is to find exactly how a human being grows from childhood to adulthood. When he learns what happens to the body (including brain), he expects to find out precisely how the mind and soul mature...
Newshawks, already titillated by a Douglas "mystery ship" at nearby Santa Monica (see col. 1), sensed in the windowless transport an even bigger mystery. The story got around that the plane would take off without a soul inside, fly straight to Honolulu by means of a "robot" pilot and directional radio. Finally it was established that Director Vidal was only testing out a compass-a radio "homing" device which, he thought, might revolutionize long-distance flying over water. It had been used by the late Macon, it had been tested for more than a year by the Army Air Corps...
...most important books in post-war journalism. Commencing with remarkably incisive comments on his career in Chicago University, and concluding with his flight from Russia and Communism, he holds his reader fascinated; treating him the while to a display of such intellectual honesty as does one's soul good in these jingoistic, nationalistic, patriotic days...
...cultural autocracy, it is extremely interesting to consider this volume written by Mr. Vaughan Williams, an English composer best known in America for his "London Symphony." In it he propounds the thesis that music is not the "universal language," but is rather a profound expression of a nation's soul...
Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of the volume is the challenge which Mr. Williams hurls at the budding musicians of America. "The music of other nations is the expression of their soul--can it also be the expression of ours?" He urges America to cease being the weakling admirer of European music and to develop its own musical idiom...