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Word: amenities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Please place me in the Amen corner for Mortimer Adler. And for TIME'S superlative description of the Great Books project. Philosophy, indeed, is everybody's business . . . Let us educate the freed citizen for a free life, and give him the knowledge to live it intelligently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 7, 1952 | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...embassy for help. Through police response was sluggish, the embassy's was not. Ambassador Capus M. Waynick, a Presbyterian from North Carolina, dashed right over in person, stalked past the mob, told Riddell to go on with his service, and stayed himself till the last Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Incident In Bogota | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...Owen himself bounced onto the stage with a shout of joy--his expensive suit and spacious bay window hinted that the path of righteousness hadn't been too thorny. "Aren't you glad for Jesus?" he shouted, but the audience remained silent. Owen admonished "If you don't say 'amen,' I'm gone come down and get you." Apparently the threat worked, for a little later, when Owen asked everyone who wasn't there to say 'amen,' there was a chorus of automatic amens from the audience...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 10/11/1951 | See Source »

...grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Two Months with Pay | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...week, worshipers streamed silently into St. Matthew's Evangelical Church. With none of the vestibule chatter common to most church crowds, they seated themselves on straight-backed wooden chairs facing a simple black cross above the plain altar. They did not sing, give hearty responses or even say amen. The only voice was that of elderly (59) Pastor Otto Bartel, who for 29 years has ministered to Berlin's deaf-mutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Gospel, with Gestures | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

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