Word: prays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pray that Dr. Richards' medical tests are directed more scientifically than this music test. Can he think that the noisy street is a proper laboratory for the sounding of the most exquisite notes played with the Kreisler spirit and finesse? Does he not realize that many of those walking along a side walk would not be guilty of sitting in a concert hall and have, therefore, nothing to do with the test...
...have insulted your country, insulted the churches of the U. S. and insulted en masse the chaplains of the Army and Navy. . . . [The U. S. and the churches] did not want the War, did not start the War, were powerless to prevent the War, but once drawn in ... prayed and fought for victory and peace. . . . You have no right to ignore underlying moral issues and to fail to distinguish between the will for peace which characterizes America and the will for war which has animated other parts of the world. . . . I know a great number of chaplains...
...Senate's most profane members. No churchman, he proclaims an abounding faith in the efficacy of prayer. He insists he prays for divine guidance before each important Senate vote. Last year he appealed to Minnesota voters to pray for the recovery of Senator Shipstead, then ill on a secluded island in northern Minnesota, "although he is not a Republican...
...prayer: "I pray for sober and sensible responsibility, a spirit of gratitude for the things we have . . . and most of all, restraint in speech...
...evaporating it to recover a mere pinch of salt?what then? Would enough Indians respond to this, the agreed signal for nonviolent, mass civil disobedience? Would they obey the Mahatma, abstain from paying taxes, abstain from all obedience to British employers or superiors,? buy no British cloth, and pray that they may meet Death all innocent and nonresisting at British hands...