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Word: pray (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where the Boston matrons pray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Criticisms of House System, Victory Over Elis Highlight '29 Senior Year | 6/15/1954 | See Source »

...Retail Merchants Bureau of Fulton and South Fulton, Ky. voted to meet for half an hour every Monday morning with a minister in attendance to pray for better business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...would win the revolution." Snapped Murphy: "As a minister, can you tell me if the $11,000 you received from the FBI as an informer is an answer to your prayers?" Replied Jones (who works weekdays as elevator operator for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch): "I don't pray for money. I work for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Tight Hold | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Beamed Billy later: "I felt as if I were shaking hands with Mr. History." Meanwhile, the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, in a report from London, told its readers how it feels to be Mrs. Billy Graham. Confided Ruth Graham to the Observer's observer: "Just pray for a thick skin and a tender heart. You need it when people just stare coldly and call you a racketeer. Of course, there are many others who think we're just the cat's whiskers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 7, 1954 | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...propagation throughout a morally shaken Asia. The man behind the council is Burma's pleasant, scholarly Prime Minister U Nu, who has been doing his best to spark a religious resurgence in his country since it got its independence in 1948. A devout Buddhist, who rises to pray at 4 a.m. each day, U Nu was meditating one day several years ago in the sacred cave where the first Buddhist council was held, when he had a vision of a great gathering of monks chanting the scriptures in a similar cave. In 1948 an unknown hermit sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Way of the Buddha | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

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