Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Menuhin, senior, settled in Palestine when a young man. His name at that time was not Menuhin. He adopted this Hebrew name to signify the peacefulness which his sensitive spirit found in the land of his forefathers, Palestine. His wife was a native Palestinian Jewish girl. They married, emigrated to the U. S. and made their home in San Francisco...
...foster a spirit of courteous consideration and fraternal co-operation within the Profession...
...Voltaire will say that the Klan was a movement of child-minded men whose age prevented them from sharing otherwise in the romantic spirit of the time and who dressed themselves up with regalia, symbols and gibberish to play solemnly at an exciting game. After a while, the game got boring...
...became aquatic. Millennia spent in the same sort of places developed distinct types of men. But of whatever type they were, and wherever they lived, they improved their lots. The more difficult it was to gain a livelihood, the quicker and the farther they rose in mentality and spirit. And the purer a race kept itself, the quicker and higher it rose among its neighbors. Today, writes the shrewdly erudite president of the American Museum of Natural History, "purity of race is found in but one nation-the Scandinavian." But, he laments, "so many of its best men have left...
There can be little doubt that bravery such as few men possess is the quality of certain learned men who have spent the last two days trying to discover the private life of a poltergeist. The poltergeist is a fearful creature from the spirit world that delights in invading the realm of the finite and taking possession of luckless mortals, causing them to do all sorts of uncanny things. An eight-year old boy who is suspected of harboring such a demon was actually able to cause tables to move without any material means of propulsion when his supernatural visitor...