Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crude Reminder. Though outsiders would probably never know how much soul-searching the Prince's parents had gone through, their decision was certainly a break in a firm family tradition. Queen Victoria was pleased to leave the education of the future Edward VII in the stern hands of Prince Albert. Since Victoria was still the sovereign when her grandchildren were growing up, and was still afraid of having them mix with other children ("The mischief done by bad boys and the things they may hear and learn from them cannot be overrated"), the future George V was also kept...
...ager to get him round a few tough corners-has too much of the real pull of a good detective story to be decently disclosed. On the other hand, the disclosures themselves-involving not just a miracle but a miracle born of a vow-constitute the very heart and soul of the play. In journeying from effect to cause, Greene has also, in his own way, moved from a character's question to a playwright's answer...
...that. At the other extreme, dermatologists have tried every conceivable remedy-vitamin A, vaccines, soaps, yeast, antiseptics, astringents, diets, hormones, ultraviolet and X rays, warnings against "picking." Despite such efforts, acne continues to afflict vast numbers of adolescents (variously estimated as 50% to 90%), many with skin-scarring, soul-searing severity...
...thought which provides an understanding of his intellectual method. In his remarks about religion, Wilson is concerned by the fact that there is no longer any valid correlative for the time-honored distinction between human and animal has led to a degeneration of meaning in the word "soul." These verbal failures lead in turn to the confusion and failure of thought about religious concepts...
future, near and far, Our single soul, atom, and universe...