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Word: soul (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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While they were gone, at exactly 10:14, the ancient steam engine began to huff & puff, and without a human soul aboard, the little train slowly pulled out of Palace Gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Train That Went | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...trade found that, even in a world heaving with troubles, books promising solace for the soul or a cure for the demoralized were not as surefire as they have been in other years. One book, Mr. Jones, Meet the Master, claimed to do neither but pointed a way toward both. Published in 1949, after its author's death, this volume of sincere, plain-spoken sermons and prayers by Senate Chaplain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

Pastor Steimle, who was an English major at Princeton, said the church's development had been greatly influenced by students. "We wanted them to take part in our activities, so we asked them their preferences. As a result, the new church will not only comfort the soul, but the body as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Lutheran Church Will Have Modern Lines | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

...Levene), manages floating crap games and has been affianced for 14 years to a nightclub singer (Vivian Elaine) who longs for "a home with wall paper and bookends." The other guy, Sky Masterson (Robert Alda), will bet on any thing - even that he can persuade a "Save-A-Soul Mission" lassie (Isabel Bigley) to go with him to Havana. While the law is missing out on dice games in sewers and Salvationist missions, love gets Sky firmly into its clutches, and leaves him out to make converts rather than points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Never a Dull Moment (RKO Radio) tries to hatch another Egg and I, merely lays an egg. The picture marries off a fashionable Broadway songwriter (Irene Dunne) to a rodeo cowboy (Fred MacMurray) and plunges her into the soul-testing pratfalls of housekeeping on his ramshackle ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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