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Word: prayers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four times in the first minute of play, the Plympton Street All Stars coasted on their laurels and an empty keg of Pabst Blue Ribbon the rest of the way. The first score, chalked up 30 seconds before the opening whistle, came about after a pass, a punt, a prayer, and a foul ball into the left field stands. Refusing to use his anti-tank division until the opening of a second front, Hesdman Rocknelberry Fenn used three full teams and an umpire in subaning the hapless Hanoverians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daily Dartmouth Goes Under By Poonish Score, 23 to 2 | 10/17/1942 | See Source »

...H.A.A. has promised to keep a trainer capable of administering first-aid in the Field House in the future whenever any sort of athletic event is taking place on Soldiers Field. Though better than nothing, such a move now is like trying to stop a flood with a prayer and a couple of blotters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Doctor Dilemma | 10/16/1942 | See Source »

Like many another Irish leader, Cardinal MacRory has leaned so far backward in his effort to be neutral that his head sometimes seems to be in the Third Reich. In 1938 he ordered public prayer "for Christians in Germany who . . . are being subjected to a most dangerous persecution," but since the war's outbreak he has reserved his most vigorous denunciations for the Allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: St. Patrick's Successor | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...converted in the U.S. to a German lyricist celebrating love and nature with the old-time fervor of a Franz Schubert. Now he confesses: "I had been too nervous, too vain, too ambitious, now I can sit in the dunes and feel humble and shy and say a little prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: GEORGE GROSZ | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...past month GPO has been busy experimenting with trial forms, which are modeled generally after the British books. About the size of a small prayer book (to fit easily into housewives' purses), they contain a variety of colored pages of perforated numbered coupons which may be torn out. This makes it possible without warning to hoarders to announce that beginning immediately a given series in a certain color will be the tickets for a newly rationed commodity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Ration Books | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

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