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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pray that the blessing of Almighty God may rest upon your labors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Beefeating | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...also said: "If there is anything about this report that suggests a jauntiness of criticism, I pray that God will forgive us. The criticisms which we have uttered, we have uttered with groanings of the spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Re-Thinking Missions | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

Millet painted The Angelus in 1859 at Barbizon, France, which gave its name to the Barbizon school of French painting. Said he: "A peasant I am, a peasant I shall die." He saw the humble Barbizon peasants pause in their work to pray at the sound of the Angelus bell. Back in his studio, he painted the picture from memory. He sold it for $120. A French department store tycoon named Chauchard paid $150,000 for it in 1910, bequeathed it to the Louvre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stabbed at Prayers | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

Commander Giovanni Quaglia of the Artiglio II eventually roared his hysterical crew to attention. "Pray for your dead comrades!" The men circled the little heap of retrieved gold, dropped to their knees, ostensibly prayed for several seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fortune from Neptune | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...Portuguese tuna-clipper returns to port after riding out a "chubasco" (tropical) storm off the Mexican coast. After two days & nights at the wheel the skipper, marooned in his pilot house, began to long to pray. The boat's tiny chapel was well aft, had to be reached across the open deck. Somehow the skipper made it, only to find the chapel empty of its gear. Desperate for something to pray to he tore a calendar off a locker wall, prayed to the figure printed on it. A few hours later the storm went down. Reporter Miller takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waterfront Pages | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

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