Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor was touched. At his regular Sunday-night broadcast, he asked his listeners to pray, then send him their advice on what he should do. Meanwhile, from his farm in Jasper County, Tex., Representative Martin Dies, 39, a mighty campaigner in his own country, announced that he would run for the Senate. So did sharp, energetic, able Gerald Mann, 34, the Attorney General, an ex-preacher and star quarterback from Southern Methodist University...
...last week, another earthquake came to Mexico City. There was no need to tell any Mexican what it was. As the first quiver became a convulsive shock, clerks and politicos, smartly dressed girls and beggars dropped on their knees in the streets to pray...
...Norwegian Lutheran Church. Most significant signer: Dr. Eyvind Berggrav, Bishop of Oslo and Primate of Norway, who at first publicly urged the Norwegians to cooperate with the Nazis, but has now apparently realized how fully they threaten everything Norse and Christian. Despite the police, Norwegian congregations continued to pray for exiled King Haakon and the Lutherans were reported backed in their struggle by other churchmen, the Salvation Army and even atheists...
...every Belgian church for three days but the pastoral circulated regardless. In it the six prelates recognized the Nazis only "as a de facto power," proclaimed that "the Belgian fatherland continues to exist," urged "national solidarity" and "moral unity," closed with an appeal to remember Armistice Day and to pray for all Belgians fallen in "the preceding and in this...
...crept crotchety, cantankerous Emeritus Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland, 80. to read to 400 Harvard freshmen. He asked some questions about Gulliver's Travels and Henry Esmond. The students' replies showed that they did not know very much about either Swift or Thackeray. Moaned "Copey": "Gentlemen, I pray...