Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place to an imposing edifice in brick, equipped with swimming pools, hot lunch counters, and the latest thing in classroom furniture. Tedious studies have been sugared over by electric maps, bolls, lantern shows, and similar kindergarten bric-a-brac. Latin and Greek, classic burden to the juvenile scholar's soul, are dying slowly away. After all, they are dead languages, unpractical, and the children do not care for them...
...book Hindus impresses upon the reader his own firm conviction that despite all difficulties and whatever the cost, the Revolution will sweep on, brushing from its path all impediments, crushing all opposition. "The Great Offensive" will continue, for the idea has become part of the modern, Russian's soul; it is the nation's expression if itself. The Soviet Union has been committed to the industrialization of the country of a socialist basis, to the collectivization of agriculture on a huge scale; there is no possibility of turning back...
...nurtured during the early days of the Revolution because of its antagonism toward the Greek Catholic Church whose grip the Bolsheviks were intent upon breaking; but the honeymoon was soon ended. For it became cleared as the Protestant movement developed that its emphasis on the priority of the individual soul, on the recompenses of the Life of Come, on the sacredness of gospels which the Soviet materialists considered so much eye-wash, on the precedence of God before the State was wholly antithetical to Bolshevik ideals. Professing these principles it is no great wonder that the Revolution swirled angrily over...
...other fracas which cropped up recently was the neat assassination of King Nadir Shah of the Afghans at Kabul, the capital of that peculiar nation. Though in natural sympathy with all monarchs who leave their thrones in such precipitous manner, one's grief is slightly lessened for this great soul by the recollection that it was Nadir who rid himself of the obnoxious Ahmad Shah by the simple expedient of blowing him from the muzzle of his biggest cannon...
...caps in evidence, no beauteous co-eds roller-skating on the campus and no fraternity initiations. Considering that it has taken only four years for Hollywood genius to advance from the nauseating stupidity of the Red Grange opus to the amiable nonsense of "Saturday's Millions," a naturally optimistic soul might find reason to believe that it will not be more than forty years before a really good football movie is produced...