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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that would make an excellent motto for Americans. So many of us pray: "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us," and then use up all the rest of our time hating. Hating the Negroes, George III, the Jews, capital, labor, Russia and any other person or nation which we know only through prejudice. The result seems to be that we have no energy or time left to approach our real problems intelligently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...within two years the finest and most powerful army, navy and air force ever seen in history, besides stuffing their Allies with war materials. What then is the use of maintaining a national defense in peacetime at an annual cost of about $10 billion, a period which we all pray will last, if not forever, at least for a few generations? Americans! Beware of militarism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1946 | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...executioner was crowding fate. For the first time in 24 tries, the chair failed to work. Convicted murderer Francis walked back to his cell to pray, and eat candy, and remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Black Is the Color . . . | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...routine 1%. Three doctors who examined the child's scarred eyes said that there was no hope for his sight. But the hospital's Superior pinned a relic of Mother Cabrini to the baby's nightdress and called the sisters to the chapel to pray all night. Next morning the doctors admitted that a miracle had occurred-the scars were miraculously gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: First U.S. Saint | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

Aoyama Gakuin Methodist School, for the first time since the war, to pray and plan for the future of Christianity in Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hopes & Plans | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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