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Word: thees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nose like an overboiled yam. He lives somewhere in the happy absences of Georgia's vast Okefenokee swamp, with his friends. Among them: Albert, a raffish alligator who smokes cigars, courts a skunk with a French accent, and describes himself as "handsome, brilliant and modest to a fare-thee-well"; Howland Owl, a foolish old bird who crosses a "gee-ranium" plant with a yew tree, hoping to get a "yew-ranium" bush for an atom bomb; the Deacon, a muskrat so elegantly educated that he speaks mostly in Old English script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Possum with Snob Appeal | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prayer for the Classroom | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...catacombs and still trying to understand them. By an irony, he is among those crucified for the burning of the city. "When he felt death approaching, that which he had always been so afraid of, he said out into the darkness, as though he were speaking to it:-To thee I deliver up my soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man Who Lived | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...Elohenu velohe abotenu - Our God and, God of our fathers, let our prayer come before thee; hide not thyself from our supplication, for we are not arrogant and stiff-necked, that we should say before thee, O Lord our God and God of our fathers, we are righteous and have not sinned; but verily, we have sinned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Trumpet for All Israel | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...wanted to make a warm living human home and grow in it babies, babies made by my husband and me ... Can a putrefied Charlemagne or a mummified Pharaoh protect and love and guide a living child? 'My daddy's three thousand years old. Yeth, we go to thee him in the museum thometimes. We thee hith toe poking out of the bandage, just like my big toe' . . . I am already a craven prehistoric cave woman of 1951. Thank God. At least we're all five of us alive, 98.4 degrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Daddy's 3,000 Years Old | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

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