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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year. Dom Augustine trudged the Manhattan streets a while in his ankle-length white robe and said: "This is my first look at the outside world in ten years. Well, it's the same old world-very noisy, very crowded. You don't have enough time to pray. So we hermits pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Eremitical U.S. | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...idolatry of every discipline for itself," and to try to reconcile science and religion, and relate all knowledge to "the whole context of human life . . . It is only the universities, not the churches or seminaries, which can hope to discover how we may, without destructive schizophrenia, at once pray and question, and so be fully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Uncle Sid | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...Presidents went together to pray at Cairo's great Al Azhar mosque, where the imam, ending a sermon broadcast from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf, told them, "Bless you both. March hand in hand and lead a united Arab nation to glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Union Now | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Your article helps explain why the "American Way of Life" is not universally admired abroad. You refer to a model girl (of 16) "who never drank, smoked or rock-'n'-rolled." At what age, pray, does the average teen-age girl start drinking? At 13? And does the vicious teen-age girl start at ten? ALAN F. LOWELL

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1958 | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...Irish Catholic Church, which [James] called the scullery-maid of Christendom." Stanislaus laces his book with anticlerical gibes; the brothers' joint rejection of the Catholic faith culminated in a scene at their dying mother's bedside in which Jim and Stanislaus refused to kneel and pray for her-an episode that Joyce later used in Ulysses as the source of Stephen Dedalus' "agenbite of inwit," i.e., remorse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloomsday's Child | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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