Word: apocrypha
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...recorded in the Harvard apocrypha that a member of admissions committee once said, "Certainly we admit men who to be scientists. They may change their minds...
...Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, by Don Russell. The author assiduously shovels away dime-novel apocrypha and discovers, surprisingly enough, an authentic and often amazing frontiersman...
...committee was set up under the chairmanship of Theologian Dodd to direct the project. The committee recruited 30 Biblical scholars who were divided into three panels-one for the New Testament, one for the Old Testament (due in 1967) and one for the Apocrypha. The scholars were backed up by a six-man committee of "literary advisers," whose names are officially secret. Individual members of a panel submitted their sections to the panel as a whole, which often spent days wrangling over a single verse...
...William F. Cody. Even the reader who knows one thing less about the horse than the sad English lady, who knew only two,* will concede that Author Don Russell, an encyclopedist by profession, has contrived a creditable and perhaps definitive biography from a mass of flapdoodle and dime-novel apocrypha. The fact that the prose is pure wampum should not bother anyone...
...classified as to whether they are Biblical or nonBiblical. Even a single word with a few letters of the words preceding and following it may be identified in this way by consulting a concordance which lists every word in the Bible in its immediate context. Noncanonical works from the Apocrypha and unknown writings of the Qumran sect are identified more slowly by their use of key words and characteristic phrases...