Search Details

Word: seers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...this world. These facts are endorsed and corroborated by the proofs of survival and of spiritual existence after the death of the physical body, which are embodied in the knowledge and teachings of what is known as spiritualism." Once he maintained that "everyone has the capacity to be a seer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Transition | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...beachcombing seer who lives on sea lettuce and stolen candy bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Riffraff | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...pianists living today. Last month, after listening to him in a program of Beethoven, including the difficult 55-minute "Diabelli" Variations, the London Times granted him the full range of pianistic talents: "Demoniac violence . . . ethereal cantabile . . . the phenomenal technique of a virtuoso and the vision of a seer." Amsterdam's Het Parool called his playing "sublime ... an overwhelming experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hero from Long Branch | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...year-old goatherd, when he was taken in by a Church of Scotland mission in Kiambu and treated for a spinal disease. The mission educated him, baptized him Johnstone Kamau. After this he learned carpentry, edited the first Kikuyu-language newspaper and studied black magic. "My grandfather was a seer and a magician," he later wrote, "and in traveling about with him and carrying his bag of equipment, I served a kind of apprenticeship in the principles of the art." In 1929 he was sent to London to present Kikuyu grievances to the British government. His view: "Africans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Burning Spears | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...next President of Harvard University may be picked today. Indications last night were, however, that no choice will be made until the May meeting of the Board of Over seer...

Author: By George S. Abrams, | Title: Overseers Meet at 11 a.m.; President May Be Selected | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

Previous | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | Next