Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...project. Weighty also was other defense evidence. It seemed altogether likely that the report to the legislature would strongly favor the defendants. Architect Goodhue studied all styles. He mastered traditional Gothic only to depart from it in a magical Goodhue Gothic. Finally, so strongly did he feel the Gothic spirit of perpetual growth, he grew out of the Gothic style, out of all archaism and raised on the Nebraska prairie a building indigenous to its time and place. Its dun-colored masses are simple-a great flat base; a slim domed tower which rises more than 400 ft. In style...
...spirit of the state infuse Sculptor Lee Lawrie's decorations. There are bison in bas-relief with inscriptions translated from Indian ritual. The maize plant replaces the classical acanthus. There are friezes of pioneers and covered wagons and on the pinnacle of the tower will shortly stride the colossal image of a sower. In addition to this local legend are figures and inscriptions symbolizing great government. From various corners, growing architecturally out of the walls, the austere faces of great lawgivers survey the prairies-Hammurabi, Moses, Pharaoh, Solon, Solomon, the Caesars, Charlemagne, Napoleon. No carven motto is more obvious...
...mass of contradictory credences could be sifted an essential credo, believed by 75% or more of the combined ministers and students. This credo would read: "I believe in the personal, omnipotent God, the Father, who controls the universe, and operates on human lives through the agency of the Holy Spirit. I believe that Jesus like myself was tempted, that he met his temptations and difficulties with only human resources, and that he lived on earth without sin. I believe that forgiveness of sin is essential to a right relationship with God and that life continues after death." Within the denominations...
...novel. Jehovah's "day," a million years in human reckoning, dawns with Eryops, fat and repulsive Mud Puppy who dragged himself from primordial slime; ends with Peregrine, fat and lovable scientist who rose to planes of pure intellect, and his wife Ann who reached for realms of pure spirit only to be dragged back to the slough of human passions. The human types chosen to epitomize extant evolutionary types are the horse-faced woman of London society; the young aviator who just misses loving his machine more than his woman; Martha, earthy female; Patrick, vivid sensualist in restless search...
...name is 'Spirit of St. Louis...