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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...answer is not mere handouts from the Federal Treasury but has to be solved by improving the economics of the poorer sections. . . ." As the conference closed, Secretary Perkins prophesied: "The program . . . is one which I predict will be worked upon . . . for 30 years to come, when a new generation, pray God, is better born, better educated and better trained than any group of people that has ever walked the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Children's Decennial | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...story is told that Edward Wood was reluctant to leave his fox hunting to become a Viceroy. He asked his father for advice. "Let us go to church and pray," suggested the father. On leaving the church his father said: "I think you will have to go." Replied the son: "I think so too." Since a Viceroy is traditionally a peer and Edward Wood had not yet inherited his father's title, the King made him Baron Irwin of Kirby Underdale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Noblest of Englishmen | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...mark of peace; Italy looks on and exults; the Catholic world looks on and exults; and even the two Princes of the Apostles,* sitting at the en trance of this royal palace, seem also to exult as if happy to see the dawn of new times. . . . We pray to God and the Vir gin Mother to extend their protection to the august sovereigns, to the royal princes and princesses, and the illustrious chief of the Italian Government and his ministers and all those present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pope to Quirinal | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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