Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further exploration may show him to be-then he is the same as the conquering, rapacious "Shishak" referred to in I Kings 14: 25-26: And it came to pass in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: and he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made...
...captain got in touch with a woman naturalist attached to a Cape Province museum, and she in turn summoned Dr. J. L. B. Smith from Rhodes University College in Grahamstown. By the time he arrived, a taxidermist had skinned and mounted the creature, throwing away the carcass (which was rotting) but keeping the skull. Dr. Smith pronounced it "sensational." Photographs were sent to London, where Geologist Errol Ivor White of the British Museum called the find "one of the most amazing events in the realm of Natural History in the 20th Century...
This week Funk's Your Life amoeba suffered another division with the publication of Your Health. Well aware of the prevalence of hypochondria in the U. S., Publisher Funk has specialized in such articles as "Tobacco and You," "What Coffee Does to You," "The Truth About Antiseptics," "Throw Away Your Cathartics?" With 175,000 copies of his first issue ordered, he hopes that quarterly Your Health will, as its predecessor has done, soon grow into a monthly...
...beginning of Alexander Nevsky. Thereafter he becomes intoxicated with the cinematic possibilities of a battle fought on a frozen lake between medieval armies. The set-to between invading German knights and a horde of moujiks ends in a German rout, the ice breaking under them as they run away...
...clear a site on the Evanston campus, facing the lake, for his new institute. To make way, the $1,000,000 stone and steel Patten gymnasium, 302 by 132 feet and three stories high, will be cut into three pieces, moved on skids to a site four blocks away...