Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garden City, L. I., Missionary Eli Stanley Jones addressed the 41st annual Foreign Missions Conference of North America (84 boards), which sent him and others touring the U. S. last autumn (TIME, Dec. 11). Said Dr. Jones: "I will go back to India heartened and convinced that the soul of the church is sound. . . . There is an undertone of craving for Christian unity. . . . We must get rid of the cleavage between denominations. No Christianity can compete with Marxian Communism and Islam that has race exclusiveness at heart...
...knows Maugham's work might surmise, the exotic setting of the scenes has little to do with the essential qualities of what is being related; here, as before, the author concerns himself more with the inner than the outer shells of his characters: he churns about in the soul, and finds it much the same on the Malay Archipelago as in East Wapping. Maugham has made the feelings of his characters more important than their dress, the harrowed back-side of their minds more entrancing than their mundane comings and goings in the streets of Singapore; and, oddly enough...
...searing, corrosive power of invective which has made him a force in China ever since he was appointed legal adviser to the original Canton Government of the late, great Dr. Sun. Last year Mr. Chen quarreled with Conqueror Chiang and since then with all the spleen in his bitter soul he has been out to smash the Generalissimo whom he calls "medievally minded," "politically dishonest," "the betrayer of China to Japan" and "the Dictator without a soul who would wreck the Kuomintang...
...into the conflict all the energy of his mind and all the strength of his endurance." Last week Father Coughlin also reminded the Press of Pius XI's strictures against "those few who . . . hold and control money ... govern credit . . . grasp, as it were, in their hands the very soul of production so that no one dares breathe against their will...
...answer for when and allows habit to answer for when and where and how, consure of minor mannerism should not be caustic; all men put the shoe upon the same foot first year in and year out. It is for this reason if for no other that the sceptical soul feels little amazement on hearing that the Model League of Nations is making plans for another Jamboree to take place in January. The Model League has been treated in these columns before; it was remarked that the organization filled definite and justifiable functions. It does not, though many might aver...