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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cried to Tennessee's Bachman nodding in the chair, "I summons you to return to the teachings of our fathers and cling at this hour close to them in obedience and pray fidelity to the guidance of the directors of our destiny-our fathers of Government and our Father in Heaven. From this security we may know that as the Sentinel of passing days, aye of passing days, passing his rounds upon the watch tower of civilization, conning the ominous signs of the times, shall hear rung out the challenge: 'Watchman. what of the night?' Angels grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Perissology | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...pray for law enforcement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 1/17/1934 | See Source »

Jesus, put your arms around New York. Hug her to death, Lord. . . . Is New York going to Heaven? Is she going to pray? To be sober? True? Virtuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sunday in Manhattan | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...where he went he made power ful good excuses, for he had a mighty glib tongue. He swore to God the first night that the holy spirit had fallen on him so heavy during the sermon he had to leave the church and go off in the woods to pray. ... He talked mighty sweet about how he hated to leave her home by herself and all like that, but his tongue fumbled so it could not talk sweet enough to fool her. She had a good notion about where he spent every God's night he was gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King Christina | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...Pray they did, that they might give the churches common voice on moral issues, perhaps some day weld them into one mighty U. S. Protestant Church. And even before they could get around to setting up the Federal Council formally, the Conference members found a project to test their strength. Pious folk all over the world were shocked at the cruel oppression of blackamoors in the Belgian Congo. The Inter-Church Conference set out to get the U. S., whose delegates had helped draw the Berlin Act recognizing the Congo Independent State, to take action. The U. S. Senate agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Federal Council's 25th | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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