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Word: prayers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norman Vincent Peale, pastor of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Reformed Church, had a solution for traffic tie-ups: "Stop for a moment of prayer when the light changes at an intersection instead of nervously honking [your] horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...whether in Westminster Abbey or in a country church. Thus, what would otherwise have been merely a flash of gems, a blare of horns and a hash of gossip took on a meaning for Briton and alien by a fascinating interplay of dignity and earthiness, of humor, pomp and prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dearly Beloved | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Students who squeezed by their hour examinations could be thankful. Those who did not could spend the day in the traditional manner--with prayer and meditation--anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All Give Thanks But Bird Below | 11/28/1947 | See Source »

Response. In Harrismith, South Africa, a torrential downpour washed out an open-air prayer meeting that had been called to pray for rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 17, 1947 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Please don't let it be like the other weeks. It had almost been a prayer how funny, thought Vag. I'm going to be indifferent. Indifferent is as handsome does and good lord at least the band is better, isn't it George! He wished he hadn't said that again and again. Maybe the band wasn't really so good and it sounded like the Ivy League Album all the time anyway. Indifferent or not-that is the question. Whether tis nobler with subsidize or lily-white Bingham. God I feel awful, what's the matter with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/14/1947 | See Source »

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