Word: ancient
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...Brown defense surrendered more total yardage than any other crew in the Ivy League, and only winless Columbia gave up more total points. Last season, a more experienced Bruins defensive unit rated tops in the Ancient Eight, recording four shutouts and allowing Ivy opponents just over seven points per contest...
Former Defensive Line Coach Ed Zubrow steps in to replace miracle worker Jerry Berndt (who departs for Rice) as the Quakers set out to match Dartmouth's record string of five consecutive Ivy titles this fall. (The Big Green ruled the Ancient Eight from...
History offers ample evidence. Ritual opium use has been traced back to Greece and Cyprus as early as 2000 B.C. The ancient Aztecs took ololiuqui (similar to LSD), peyote, marijuana and other mind benders. In the Middle Ages, witches rubbed their bodies with hallucinogenic ointments...
...poor neighborhood not far from Istanbul's Galata Tower, the small group of worshipers assembled for the 8 a.m. Sabbath service last Saturday at Neve Shalom, the ancient city's largest synagogue. A little more than an hour into prayers in the temple's cool, newly white-washed interior, the reader began reciting the verses of Deuteronomy 16. Among the lines is the well-known biblical injunction "Justice, justice shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live...
...word as the Americans of an earlier generation did. So, although he was already at work on the Civil War studies that eventually became Patriotic Gore (1962), he now took up the study of Hebrew. In the course of these studies, he heard talk of a controversy over some ancient documents that had recently been found near the Dead Sea. And so he persuaded The New Yorker to send him to the new state of Israel to learn more, and that was how he came to write The Scrolls from the Dead...