Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hail, Mother Ceylon, we worship Thee, Plenteous in prosperity Thou, Beauteous in grace and love, Laden with corn and luscious fruit And fragrant flowers of radiant hue . . . Receive our grateful praise sublime, Mother Ceylon, we worship Thee...
...last week began the fifth Religion in American Life campaign, annual effort of U.S. laymen (Protestant, Catholic, Jewish) to encourage church attendance through advertising in the press, over the air, and on billboards and car cards. This year's slogan: "Light their life with Faith; bring them to worship this week." Said President Eisenhower, making R.I.A.L.'s keynote speech: "By strengthening religious institutions, the Committee on Religion in American Life is helping to keep America good. Thus it helps each of us to keep America great...
...quiet grudge or Marquand Jr.'s compulsion to renounce loudly the world of wealth and position. Mr. Flood's even perspective, whether it be laid to ignorance of any other setting, or correctly, I think, to his maturity, is refreshing in its calm acceptance, rather than scorn or worship, of the club at Harvard, debut rituals, codes of tradition. In the social frame which the novel gives its characters, there is far more depth than in the characters themselves...
Partisans of the American clippers may be surprised to find that the Germans produced not only the greatest ships but some of the greatest captains as well. To Villiers, once a skipper in sail himself and not easily given to hero worship, the giant of them all was Robert Hilgendorf, the "Devil of Hamburg." No one ever equaled his skill at rounding the Horn, and there were plenty of sailing men who believed that he could control the winds with black magic. Hilgendorf himself did not care to press his skill; he quit at an early 50 to take...
...before World War II, Dr. Karl Lehmann of New York University has been digging away at an even older center of religion: the temple of "the Great Gods," who were old when Greece was young. Their headquarters was on the Aegean island of Samothrace, and their "mystery" (basically a worship of fertility) began before Homeric times and lasted into the Christian period...