Word: prayerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Archbishop of Canterbury had recommended that the nation listen with "fresh resolve and renewed prayer for ... our Allies and the cause we serve." Bell-ringing teams, dispersed by war, had reassembled and practiced frantically with muffled clappers...
...will fill out the program by singing first three choruses from Mozart's Masonic Music and selections from Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe. Among the folk songs to be presented by the Glee Club will be a unique rendition of "Casey Jones" arranged by Edward B. Lawton '34. The "Prayer of Thanksgiving" will be presented as a grand finale by the two groups...
...your article, "The Power of Prayer in Kentucky," issue of Oct. 26, p. 78, you missed a chance to point out the fact that the passage so literally interpreted by the snake-handlers is Mark 16:18, which is a part of the well-known "false" ending to the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 16 verses 9 to 20 in the King James version. Nobody who looks at the facts could come to the conclusion that Jesus actually spoke these words, and the evidence that he did not is of the best and most objective kind, manuscript evidence...
...Hurlbut asks above the shellfire: 'Do any of you fellows mind if I say the Lord's Prayer?' We press him and he recites the prayer in a loud voice that fills the dugout above the noise of the guns and comforts us. We murmur 'Amen' when he is finished and sit in shocked silence while the earth continues to rock...
With Sword and Prayer. The British carrier Illustrious had limped into Malta after a hot time in the narrow passage off Sicily. Stukas pounced on her, turned their destruction loose on harbor shipping and dockyards. German planes filled the blue Mediterranean sky. The sporting days of war were over...