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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently reorganized U. S. Employment Service as an "ineffective set-up," Fred I. Jones resigned last week as its director general, having held the post ten years. ¶ Bishop Francis J. McConnell, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, urged U. S. churches to pray this Sunday "for deeper sympathy with the unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: When Winter Comes (Cont'd) | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...second-class promenade of the Rajputana a little enclosure was rigged up for the distinguished traveler. There, to the great interest of homing Britons, he began to cook, spin, pray. Occasionally he rose to place a skinny, brown benediction on the head of some surprised English child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Spinner Sails | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...works in the Imperial Museum. He ordered Painter David to buy back the Death of Socrates even if he had to pay 60,000 francs for it. However, as Painter David had prophesied to his Emperor, M. de Trudaine refused all offers, said to Painter David: "I pray you to say to Napoleon that I esteem your work above any price. "Disgruntled, Napoleon remarked, "It is necessary that I respect property," stopped trying to get the Death of Socrates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Story Picture | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...chapel there must be. But let it be a new Appleton, a church rising on the same principles as the old Appleton in which those three men of Harvard came to pray before returning to their fatherland to cast their lives away and lose, it seems, their right to be called sons of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARTIAL COMMEMORATION | 6/16/1931 | See Source »

...Rome a visiting U. S. Catholic may pray in the church of his U. S. cardinal (every cardinal, wherever situated, is a priest of some church in Rome); he may contact the Vatican for an audience through Monsignor Burke, Rector of the North American College; but if playgrounds be his hobby he must go to Knight Hearn. Onetime Supreme Knight, European Commissioner of the K. of C. during the War, he is today the friend of every Roman child who wants to play on grounds or swim in the Tiber. Off the K. of C.'s handsome Tiber platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY-PAPAL STATE: Eat Mussolini? | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

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