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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believed in Buddha, but suddenly my mother fell ill. I prayed long and earnestly, and with full faith before our household Buddhistic idol but my mother died. That shook my faith in idols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Feng's Faith | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

From the Mexican clergy recently came an eloquent appeal that nuns in general be not held responsible for the acts of one demented individual. The individual in question was Mother Superior Maria Concepcion Acebedo de la Llata, 36-year-old bobbed haired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Nun's Tale | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...Story. Mother Concepcion, sinister, mysterious master mind, has long made it a practice to gather about her youthful impressionable idealists, wheedle them into fanatics, use them as instruments, her end being the deliverance of Mexico from "religious persecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Nun's Tale | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Returned to Mother Concepcion, the party was upbraided for its failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Nun's Tale | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...madre," they protested, "how could you ask a girl to do such a terrible thing?" Laconically, coldly the Mother Superior replied, "I am using girls for everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Nun's Tale | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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