Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grown to manhood, Abraham migrated to Canaan, on the Mediterranean's eastern shore, with his childless wife Sarah, his brother's son Lot, his slaves and herds. The land he found was anything but the primitive pastoral society Bible scholars assumed until recently. The excavation of the ancient cities of Ugarit and Mari in the 1930s shows a culture already old in Abraham's day, which was celebrated for its music and art, bronze work and historical and religious epics. Diplomatic and commercial documents preserved on clay tablets indicate that Abraham, a rich man now, must have...
Died. Melvin Maynard Johnson, 86, topflight Mason, dean (1935-43) of the Boston University Law School; in Boston. A veteran Masonic official, he was Illustrious Sovereign Grand Commander, Supreme Council, 33rd Degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rites of Freemasonry for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the U.S.A. from...
...prisoner's dock in Paris' ancient Palais de Justice last week stood a pale, emotionless young Algerian named Mohammed ben Sadok, on trial for his life. Before the case got to judgment, France learned once again that the political assassin often carries his prosecutor with him before the bar of justice...
...designed in the belief that Christians at worship want to breathe the air of the present. Not all of the churches please all worshipers. But, says Kidder Smith of the surge of church building in western Europe: "There is hardly any warmed-over pastiche or fainthearted aping of ancient forms. There is the very firm conviction that church building today can contribute just as much to the religion and culture of our time as it has throughout the greatest periods of architecture...
...Most of a professor's time goes to his graduate students and his research, not to his lectures and office hours or even the meeting of committees concerned with undergraduate affairs. If the academic profession is subsidizing anyone it is the graduate student. The small courses, the obscure and ancient volumes, the complex scientific apparatus are only really useful to the graduate student...