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Word: soule (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived close to it for generations; 3) perfectly poised between these poles of blood and soil, so that his actions are always determined by them, but appear to be instinctive and unreasoned, like the actions of a healthy animal. When Nazi theoreticians sound off about the German folk-soul, they mean to refer to this somewhat vague balance of blood, soil, race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood-thinking | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...kind of folksy Faustus, Mr. Benet's fable relates how a New Hampshire farmer, in return for ten years of prosperity, sold his soul to the devil. To his wedding in 1841 come Secretary of State Daniel Webster (to kiss the bride) and the Devil (to have his due). Neighbor Webster, the great lawyer, defends Farmer Stone before a special jury of villains out of Hell and U. S. history, wins an acquittal by touching their memories of Freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lyric Theatre | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...think Mr. Caldwell's warm heart and sympathies ran away with him. Aren't we all rather forgetting that the typical and usual German is a sentimental cheery good soul? Let's judge a little more by the ones we know and meet and less by the ones we only read about in the papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Breathes there a TIME man with soul so dead who never to himself has said how much he would give for an evening with that Petty girl? Or is garrulous TIME too poky to realize women by Petty are not only a No. 1 ware of you know what 50? magazine, but also the modern American Dream? Ask your nearest college boy for further details. And remember not to include out of succeeding columns on illustrators a mention of the airbrushed wonder of your days and mine-the Petty girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...retainers. Although there is no longer a court fool, His Majesty still has a court sculptor, an organist, a keeper of the swans, a master of the King's music, a painter and limner, a botanist, a historiographer, some 59 ministers of the gospel for his soul, some 40 medical specialists for his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Civil Servant | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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