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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane might be landed, you came back and warned your passengers that the landing would be rough. You unlocked the door so that all could escape from the burning plane. . . . You did this when your hands were burned to the bone. You could hardly hold the key. I pray God for the knowledge to understand for what purpose He saved my life by sacrificing yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Another for Texas | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

There alone to kneel and pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harlem Prodigy | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...Southeast a two-month drought has done more than legislation could ever do. Fortnight ago, potato conditions in Georgia were so bad that Governor Eugene Talmadge, a sizable potato grower himself, commanded: "Tell all the preachers to have meetings Sunday afternoon at three o'clock to pray for rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Potato Flurry | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

White folks eat de apple, Nigger wait fo' co' [core] In Sistren an' Brethren, the rebellious singer commands: Stop foolin' wid pray, When black face is lifted, Lord turnin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs of Protest | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...said he, "affected by noxious gas, but it is nothing. I am fortunate to escape with my life, whereas thousands of my brave people died." A Jewish barber came in and trimmed Haile Selassie's beard, now quite grey, before the little Emperor went to pray at the Ethiopian Church and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. "Have courage and hope," the Emperor told 200 weeping Coptic priests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Courage and Hope | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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