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Word: inners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least 100 that were metropolitan enough to have temples, statues and hieroglyphs. Tikal, in Guatemala, may have had a population of 200,000 or more; its ruins cover several hundred acres, and include five temples, one of them over 200 feet high. Copan, in Honduras, has within its inner group of buildings a sizable stadium, sculptured stairways, terraces, pyramids. At Chichen Itza and Uxmal in Yucatan were colonnades, palaces, and a series of stone courts on which a basketball-like game was played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Decay in the Jungle | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...grinding out symphonies at rehearsals every Tuesday and Thursday nights. For those who have been worried about the term "Pieran," the word refers to a place in Greece where the Muses met. Its members elected when they have served two terms in the Orchestra, the Pleran Sodality is the "inner circle" which handles the Orchestra's finances and arrangements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pierian Sodality Not 'Long-Haired' But Members Enjoy Music Making | 12/7/1946 | See Source »

...persons next to you insist upon talking to you during breakfast-Be kindly toward them. It may be they think you have no inner resources on which to rely, and so they chatter to put you at ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Spiritual Breakfast | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Authority & the Inner Light. For most modern Quakers, the schism's cause was as archaic as broad-brimmed hats and grey bonnets. But in the early 19th Century, winds of doctrine blew hot and strong upon the Society of Friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In One Spirit | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...plain country meetinghouses, Quaker farmers and their families still worshiped according to the precepts of their 17th Century English founder George Fox, waiting in "living silence" for the Inner Light to quicken in them direct awareness of God's will. They felt no need of dogmas, ritual, or "hired priests." They studied their Bibles for spiritual inspiration rather than as final, unchangeable authority as to the nature and will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In One Spirit | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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