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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children stared around them wide-eyed. Last week at the first services police allowed in Buenos Aires' burned-out churches. Argentine Roman Catholics saw the full extent of the damage. Inside blackened shells they found looted poor boxes, shattered statues and altars, toppled altar rails. They knelt to pray in mounds of ashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Ravished Churches | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...year-old landmark of the national capital. Abraham Lincoln and seven other Presidents (John Quincy Adams, James Madison, Rutherford B. Hayes, James K. Polk, William McKinley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman) occasionally worshiped there; Franklin Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill went there on Christmas Day in 1941 to pray. Last week Foundry's pastor for the past 31 years, silver-thatched Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, preached his farewell sermon. At the compulsory retirement age of 72, well-loved Dr. Harris was leaving Foundry to give more time to his other job-chaplain of the U.S. Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Adman at the Foundry | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...both of whom worked on last year's cover stories on the Archbishop of Canterbury and Evangelist Billy Graham. Laborare Est Orare is illustrated with color portraits of other women who have entered the monastic life. Here is a warm and human story about women who work and pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...will to power, his refusal to submit to reason. As Christians, we must hope that in the Kremlin's dictatorial mind there can eventually be sown some small measure of skepticism as to the value of the barren earth which any atomic war would bring. We must pray for that, with our lips and with the example of holy lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science and Religion Must Join if World is to Survive H-Bomb | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...shoulder League Against Cruel Sports, these were fighting words. More fuel was poured into the fire when an L.A.C.S. member reported that at one of Graham's Glasgow meetings, a lad had said to Evangelist Graham: "Excuse me, sir-my father loves animals, and I hope you will pray for them in your service." Billy's reported reply: "Now you trot home and tell your daddy that my job is saving human souls. I have no time for animals."* This secondhand duologue was greeted at the league's annual meeting in London with teeth-gnashing and wails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

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