Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieutenant R. K. Tupper of the Navy Chaplain Corps offered an introductory prayer after the graduates had been seated. Following a few words by Saltonstall and C. Sidney Burwell, Dean of the Medical Faculty, the commissions began...
Terse. In Kansas, a circular letter advertising flour observed that the Lord's Prayer was written in 71 words, the first chapter of Genesis in 800, the Gettysburg Address in 267, but "the OPA uses 2,500 words to announce a reduction in the price of cabbage seed." Vocational Guidance. In Manhattan, Selective Service Director McDermott insisted the psychoneurotic discharge from the Army did not necessarily mean mental deficiency, declared: "I know of scores of cases of men earning $5,000 to $40,000 a year who were rejected ... on a diagnosis of psychoneurosis...
Microprint, in Librarian Rider's opinion, is a better scientific substitute for oldtime methods of scratching the Lord's Prayer on a pinhead. As employed commercially by Manhattan's Readex Microprint Corp., it reduces the ordinary book page to 1/400th of its original size, prints these pages in blocks of one hundred on a 6 in. by 9 in. card. For reading, the card is inserted in a "reflectoscope" which enlarges each microprinted page to 9 in. by 12 inches. Only one page at a time appears in the reader's vision, and a mechanical finder...
...brief ritual consists of five hymns, parts of the 103rd and 46th Psalms, a Litany of Dedication, a Litany of Intercession, many a prayer. Besides the expected thanksgiving, the prayers also petition that God "may keep us humble in victory; forbid that we should harbor hatreds or revenge...
...Anglican (or Episcopalian) deaconess is not a female deacon. She may not read Morning or Evening Prayer, or preach, which a deacon can do. Like a lay sister, she wears a habit, assists the parish priest in educational and social-service work...