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Word: jehovah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While two yellow-robed girls stood sentry-like at each side of the chancel, Miss Schirmer postured, gestured and attitudinized. The organ played Schubert's "Great Is Jehovah," and by consulting their programs the congregation knew that Miss Schirmer was interpreting "The Greatness of God." Registering wonder, adoration, obeisance, awe, supplication she continued with "The Peace of God That Passeth All Understanding" (music by Gluck); "The Universality of God" (Beethoven); "The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness" (Bach); "The Deep Sense of Abiding in God" (Beethoven); "Angels Announcing the Coming of the Messiah" (Bach). The whole thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Sport of God | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...Jehovah unsuccessfully offers to an aristocratic Manhattan spinster the honor of giving virgin birth to another Messiah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kindly Old Fellow | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...faces. It was really the most remarkable thing I ever saw. . . . You felt their sense of responsibility. There was a lovely thing at the end. The president of the Homesteaders' association said, "I think we ought to offer up a prayer for the blessings that the great Jehovah'- he used the word Jehovah-has given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Promised Land | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

...love of the surgeon may, Pygmalion-like, make his work so exquisite and perfect that the great Jehovah will touch it into life, even as Venus made the marble Galatea into vibrant, palpitating life. The surgeon must, with fingers that are dexterous beyond compare and with mind that plans, see the completed result in his imagination. He models and commands the method, carries out the procedure, puts the parts into perfect apposition, but God knits the scar. "He sews severed arteries that they may carry their crimson torrent without leak and without hindrance. The delicate nerve must be spliced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeons in Chicago | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

Three months later she dies of a septic abortion. The interne's friend and mentor (J. Edward Bromberg), a famed surgeon, appears to announce: "Jehovah and Aesculapius-they both demand their human sacrifices." The interne then makes up his mind what he is going to do with his life. Excellent scene, recommendable to those who will want to make a cinema out of Men in White: the operating theatre, with the attendants meticulously scrubbing and rinsing themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 9, 1933 | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

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