Word: palmyras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dancing has a tendency to invigorate the spirit and promote health," said the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith of Palmyra, N.Y. Last week at Salt Lake City's University of Utah Stadium, 8,000 young Mormons in blue skirts and white blouses. Spanish costumes, tangerine and black jumpers or pastel formals romped and whirled through a two-night program of waltzes, fox trots, folk dances, tangos, rumbas and square and round dances and even some "toned-down" jitterbug steps...
...hill called Cumorah, situated near Palmyra, N.Y. (22 miles southeast of Rochester), is a holy place to the 1,500,000 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For three nights last week, the faithful and the curious gathered there in record numbers-some 135,000 in all-for the 17th Hill Cumorah Pageant, which depicts in dramatic terms the legendary origins of the Mormon faith...
Beginning in Palmyra. It had hardly ever occurred to Ted Adams that he could do anything else but serve God full time...
...first memory is of sitting with his mother in the little Baptist Church in his native Palmyra, N.Y. "and looking out there and seeing my father in the pulpit, preaching to the congregation, and thinking what a wonderful thing that...
...Postponed action on Hawaiian statehood after the Interior Committee decided that its members should go to Hawaii for hearings. Some committee members were troubled by the far-flung boundaries (from Palmyra to the Kure Islands) set in the House bill, others were enticed by thoughts of Hawaii in the spring...