Word: prayerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years the U.S. Navy has been praying for just such an engine. Charles Kettering's General Motors engineers answered the prayer. The engine, a two-cycle diesel, is now being produced by an Illinois factory. Most diesels are four-cycled-three out of four piston strokes serve only to charge the cylinder for the power stroke. But in the two-cycle diesel, every downstroke has an explosive push behind it. Thus the weight of the two extra cylinders can be eliminated. Two of the lighter engines can now be installed where one was formerly used, and a lot more...
...complete merger is achieved, the United Church will accept the Bible, the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, both the Presbyterian Confession of Faith and the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, baptism by water and in the name of the Trinity. Bread and wine (Presbyterians generally substitute grape juice) will be used in the celebration of Holy Communion. In governing the United Church, clergy and laity will have "coordinate powers" and an "equal voice" with bishops. Congregations will keep their present rights "unless and until the United Church may see fit to modify them...
...Seven times that day Japanese planes had raided the city and dropped bombs. The Generalissimo explained that they were trying to find out where he was staying. After a simple dinner the visitor was asked to remain for evening devotions. They knelt together, and first Madame Chiang offered a prayer, then the guest prayed, and finally the Generalissimo. He prayed for the American people to whom his guest was going, then for his own Chinese people, and finally for the Japanese people, whose representatives that day seven times -had tried to kill him. Here is a man in whose heart...
...sick-sweet smell of wreaths and flowers. There, in a steel casket, the flag draped over, lay the body of Otto J. Weiner Jr., private in the Marines, killed in action on an unnamed Pacific island. American Legionnaires stood guard. A Lutheran pastor spoke the eulogy, said the prayer...
...upwards of 2,000 students graduating from the College and the various graduate schools and special departments of the University, and will confer the honorary degrees. Music at the morning exercises will be by the University Choir, under the direction of Associate Professor G. Wallace Woodworth. The opening prayer and the benediction will be given by Dean Sperry...