Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, the Dilowa Hutukhtu lived at Naribanchin, absolute ruler of 900 lamas, and lord of miles of farm and pasture lands. Dressed in silken robes of yellow and red, he spent his days in study and prayer. Only for the year's great festivals, such as the bemasked Devil Dance, did he vary his happy and quiet routine...
Lattimore hopes the hutukhtu's presence will be "the point of departure" for expanded courses on Mongolia. If all goes well, the hutukhtu may well settle down for a while, to resume in Baltimore the private life of study and prayer he knew at Naribanchin Sume...
...last reported incident," Bigart writes, "occurred last summer, when 18 Protestants were arrested at Medina del Campo, near Valladolid, on charges of holding a clandestine prayer meeting. They were jailed and fined 1,000 to 2,000 pesetas (equivalent to two months' pay for the average Spanish worker...
Funny Things About the Stars. At 22, at the University of Chicago, she wrote a Ph.D. thesis entitled "A Study of Prayer from the Standpoint of Social Psychology." After arguing her thesis with the faculty, she ran out into the darkness and "threw a kiss to the stars. 'Your loveliness,' I cried, 'I've been proving the funniest things about you. I hope you enjoyed that nice debate...
...Kerr still has time for prayer meetings and choir practice, In her way of life, religion and business are inextricably mixed. Whenever a Kerr glass furnace is relit after a shutdown, a minister is called in to ask a blessing...