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Word: godless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stegg of Manila, P. I., reached Chicago last week to attend the Chicago Methodist Camp Meeting. Quickly he inspected the community, made a conclusion: ''Chicago is the most godless city in the world. . . . The fault lies not with flaming youth, but with men and women in their foolish, fat forties. Forty per cent of Chicago high school girls disapprove of petting. That is better than they did in my day, all of 30% better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Foolish, Fat Forties | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

Throughout the world last Sunday the holy men of Christendom and of Jewry stood before their believing flocks, raised high their prayers for brooding, savage, militantly godless Russia. In Manhattan a host of 3,500 Protestants gathered in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to hear Bishop William Thomas Manning, guarded by three detectives, conduct a solemn service of supplication. The proceedings were similar to those which took place throughout the western world and in far-away missionary lands-a multitudinous echoing of the cry of Christ: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." Also typical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Day of Prayer | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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