Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year more than the jug was at stake. For Minnesota, undefeated this season, was ranked No. 1 in last week's Associated Press poll. Michigan, also undefeated, was ranked No. 3 (No. 2: Texas). The scrappy Wolverines, still clinging to Yost's "punt, pass and a prayer," were bent on kicking Minnesota off its perch...
...will just come to me. Vag said to himself as he approached his tutor's room. But the thought was more of a prayer than a consolation. He rapidly compared himself to a list of such biblical characters as Daniel in the lion's deu, and Moses at the Red Sea. . . . Surely God must be a consistent sort of person...
...nation cannot be freed by prayer. . . . Nations are not freed by doing nothing, but by sacrifices. . . . Passive resistance has real significance only if backed by a determination . . . to continue resistance by open struggle or by means of clandestine guerrilla warfare.-Mein Kampf...
Last week occupied Europe took Hitler's words to heart. The conquered wanted freedom and revenge. Not by prayer, but by civil war, they sought it. The Slav peoples of central and southeastern Europe, as if they heard some far-off blood call of their cousins on the plains of Russia, sprang into bloody action...
Cinemaddicts who want to see Tanks will have to see it on a double bill. About half as long (50 minutes) as a standard feature picture, it was thought up by Producer Hal Roach as the answer to the double-feature exhibitor's prayer: a short feature to combine with a standard-length picture so that cash customers will still think they are seeing two pictures for the price of one and the exhibitor will be able to squeeze in an extra show...