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Word: pews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pronounced Pull-it-sur, not Pew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Little Guy | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...year-old might, Walter Smith whiled away the monotony of a long church service at Britain's Windsor by chatting in furtive whispers with two kindred spirits in the same pew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Double Take | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...talent greater than her own. In the large, cold chapel of Paris' La Trinite Church, 100 people gathered to attend a low Mass for Lili. As she does every year, Nadia Boulanger had arranged a music program in Lili's memory. Nadia sat in a front pew; she did not play the organ music-though she is a top organist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: La Boulanger | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...that is impossible when purchased at the cost of the unity of truth, but a unity of religious peoples. ... In a word, if anti-Christ has his fellow-travelers, then why should not God and His Divine Son? . . . We may not be able to meet in the same pew -would to God we did - but we can meet on our knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Signs of the Times | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...prematurely, Bob made his first bid for President. Martha watched her husband lose to Wendell Willkie. She remarked sadly to Pennsylvania Boss Joe Pew, "They say this is the first unbossed convention in the party's history; I hope it's the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Age of Taft | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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