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Word: pray (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington and most of the labor politicians seem to have read the book and out West on the Truman express, the Presidential advisors seem to be following their Bean, stir up a commotion, get out the vote, and pray Henry Wallace is an overrated vote-better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Statistical Prognosticator Gives Truman Chance | 9/30/1948 | See Source »

...WORD OREMUS (LET Us PRAY) : "A useful sort of alarm clock ... to wake us up at various points . . . when our attention was in danger of going to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Religious Dance | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...lean, British-born Actor Rex Harrison, a man Hollywood had nicknamed "Sexy Rexy." One night last week, after Harrison had dined with her at her big Pacific Palisades house, Frances Ridste gulped a few fast highballs and wrote a note to her "Dearest Mommie." She scribbled: "Goodbye, my angel. Pray for me." She signed it, "Your Baby." Then she took a lethal handful of sleeping pills, sank to the bathroom floor, and died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Casually in Hollywood | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus," he chanted as he walked with eyes half-closed. And behind him a chorus, 7,000 voices strong, took up the chant of the rosary: "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pilgrimage | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...Father, we pray that the people of America, who have made such progress in material things, may now seek to grow in spiritual understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ends & Means | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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