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Word: soulful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When, for instance, in a camp a 28-year-old male teacher constantly addresses 14 and 15-year-old girls as 'You growing mothers,' then the still slumbering feminine soul rebels," wrote the Nazi Mother. Her own 15-year-old daughter, she declared, changed from a happy, healthy child into one given to morbid brooding and thoughts of suicide after having to fill pages of her notebook with scientific data on venereal disease and physiological drawings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Sledgehammer Sex | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

Mystics believe that Paracelsus' soul frequently descends to the U. S. for conventions of the American Medical Association and for conventions of the American Chemical Society. If so, Paracelsus was in San Francisco last week, listening to members of the American Chemical Society discuss the following useful current events in chemotherapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chemotherapy | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

Harvard has been much less concerned with the soul than with the intellect since the year it discarded as its primary function the training of men for the ministry. That was long ago, but one still hears the complaint that we have found it impossible to retain lessons learned at home by example, when other lessons are taught more convincingly by logic. Logic is a fickle mistress, and must be kept in her place. There will always be realms where scepticism is baffled, where science confesses to bewilderment, and in these realms lessons other than those learned in books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEALTHY SCEPTICISM | 9/1/1935 | See Source »

...human intelligence, is no more than 2½ lb. of raw meat, the cerebrospinal nervous system, conveyor of human will to muscles, a set of puppeteer's strings; the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, a network of complex paths, lanes, byways and highways through which the human soul moves strangely. To know the complexities of the neural ways and cords and of the cerebral mass requires a chess player's intricate mentality. To dare to touch them with a knife requires unpassionate fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nerve Congress | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

There arose a distinguished group of portraitists of the primitive mind-Frazer, Sumner & Keller, Malinowski, Boas. One of these was Lucien Levy-Bruhl, longtime professor of the University of Paris, who published his first noteworthy treatise in 1884, followed by Primitive Mentality, How Natives Think, The "Soul" of the Primitive. Last week from the pen of Professor Levy-Bruhl, 78, appeared Primitives and the Supernatural,* a meaty summary of how the sons of the wilderness regard the unseen powers, benign and malevolent, that preoccupy virtually every hour of every day of their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Powers Unseen | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

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