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Word: amens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amen Corner. In Johnson City, N.Y., cops broke up a bustling little business for Peter Sadowitz, who was caught operating an unlicensed bar in the social room of a local church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...hearty "Amen" to Professor Gore's comments on church music. Too long have many of us who are organists and choirmasters been appalled by the low grade of music in the services of the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Next day, retiring President-General Mrs. Julius Young Talmadge fondly embraced her successor (see cut) and the busy week was over. Sighed a happy page: "It was just as if a peace had descended over the auditorium-just like an Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: D. A. R. | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...insisted on keeping the budget of the United Nations six million dollars lower than the amount spent to keep the streets of New York City clean? The Soviet Government certainly wished to keep the budget low. Speaking in the name of a stingy-minded Republican Congress, Senator Vandenberg cried, Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Rallying Cry | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Martyrs & Mistresses. Qualunquist deputies of strident Journalist Guglielmo Giannini's party shouted "Amen" and "Hooray." The Socialists cried: "Coercion . . . ecclesiastical oppression." Italy's outstanding Jewish figure, grey-bearded, shambling, 67-year-old Republican Deputy Ugo Della Seta-his whole body trembling with indignation, his-hands wildly clutching the air-shrilled: "Remember those non-Catholics who fought and died . . . who were martyred in the Ardeatine Caves! It is un-Christian to place religious minorities in a status of inferiority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Father Palmiro's Party | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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