Word: 20th
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More important, biblical scholars insist the King James is no longer accurate enough. It was translated from relatively late medieval manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek, the best available then, but 20th century research has turned up texts that are as many as 1,000 years closer to the originals. The ending to the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6: 13, for instance, beginning with "for thine is the kingdom." is not in the earliest manuscripts...
Radcliffe's Bunting Institute this weekend celebrated its 20th anniversary as the only center in the country that awards postdoctoral fellowships primarily for women...
...artist like Manet-with his dandyism and blague, his risky spontaneity and breadth of touch-as a father of later modernist painting. The fact that he also had deep affinities with "retrograde" realists of his own time, and was a 19th century rather than a "proto-20th century" artist, was sometimes played down...
...realizes, as she does not, that the Christian epoch will have no room for a necromancer - or an ironic realist. Mer lin's time has come again in the post-Christian 20th century; it is fitting, then, that Williamson expresses both the juicy effluence of hoary ham acting and the quizzical underplaying of the Method. His Merlin is also a perfect avatar of the sorcerer behind the camera. Love Excalibur or hate it, but give Boorman credit for the loopy grandeur of his imagery and imaginings, for the sweet smell of excess, for his heroic gamble that a movie...
...make it Susan did, much to she astonishment of her family and teammates. She has since gone to earn spots on the Holland/France. Hawaii and Utah trips, and her times of 1:12.93 and 2:35.08 in the 100- and 200-meter breaststrokes at Irvine last summer rank her 20th and 12th in the world, respectively...