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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dumb Show. In the great dark vault of a cathedral on the Rhine stands a wonder-working image of the Virgin. A thousand candle flames flicker, their brilliance reflected in the gorgeous windows, in the golden vessels of the holy service. Worshippers come in throngs to pray, pale-faced nuns do their devotions and priests perform the sacred ritual under a mantle of incense and church music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: In Chicago | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...judges were Mr. Carl Rust Parker, F.A.S.L.A., of the Olmstead Office, for many years member of the Examining Board of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and Mr. Guy Hunter Lee '16, M.L.A. '21, former leader of the Harvard Reconstruction Unit in France, Professor J. S. Pray '95, Charles Eliot Professor of Landscape Architecture, Professor H. V. Hubbard '97. Professor of Landscape Architecture, and Mr. B. W. Pond '11, Secretary of the American Society of Landscape Architects, President of its Boston Chapter, and also a member of the staff of the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEBEL WINS TOPLARIAN CLUB TROPHY FOR NEW PARK DESIGN | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...Kneel down and pray with me," he said, looking her fixedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mr. Kidd | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

Your football schemes are altogether impracticable. Consider the case of Syracuse, for example: Syracuse, I am informed on good authority, has sixty (60) football scholarships. What, pray, is to be done with these? (Ed.'s Note: We don't know.) J. H. Gladstein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Altogether Irrelevant | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

Among his foibles have been noted "a taste for ice cream, and a reluctance to employ the death penalty except in extreme cases." Said an observer: "Feng is a 'Christian,' yes; but of a special kind. Like Cromwell he teaches his men to pray well and shoot better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Squabbling | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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