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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pray the Lord, who could arrange...

Author: By M. J. Reth, | Title: MIDSHIPMEN | 5/21/1943 | See Source »

...Fifty per cent pray regularly or occasionally; the rest never pray. Those who pray are fewer than those (nearly seven out of ten) who practice such household superstitions as throwing spilled salt over the left shoulder. And many who do pray have merely "taken over a form of words from childhood and are using it still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Faith Without Works | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...there was no staying power. I was depending on self. Then ... I was plunged into dark despair ... I realized that spiritually I was failing my husband. . . . Thus I entered into the third period where I wanted to do not my will, but God's. ... I used to pray that God would do this or that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Chiang's Testimony | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...pray only that God make His will known to me. . . . "Prayer is not self-hypnotism. It is more than meditation. ... I do not think it is possible to make this understandable to one who has not tried it. ... What I do want to make clear is that whether we get guidance or not, it's there. It's like tuning in on the radio. There's music in the air whether we tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Chiang's Testimony | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...Sergeant Eskel D Carlson will leave this station on April 27 to become a "Mr." at the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Officer Candidate School, Camp Davis, North Carolina, where after seventeen weeks of intensive study he will, we all earnestly pray, emerge a 2nd Lieutenant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STATISTICACKLES | 4/23/1943 | See Source »

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