Word: babylonic
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...wrote Professor Gerhardt in Forschungen und Fortschreiten (Researches and Progress). According to ancient Jewish and Christian texts, Saturn ruled the Hebrews. The Messiah was expected to arrive under this "Star of God," which was called both Chiun (Amos, 5:26) and Remphan (Acts, 7:43). In Babylon and Susa, whence came the Wise Men, Saturn was visible at the time of Christ's birth only in the first week in April. Travelling westward, the Wise Men would have seen it overhead between Oct. 10 and Dec. 15 as they proceeded to Bethlehem from Jerusalem. For their arrival...
Progressing then to selections from contemporary composers, all of whom were fortunately present to take their bows, we heard consecutively "O Fons Bandusiae" (Randall Thompson) in which both choruses joined to do honor to Horace, "By the Rivers of Babylon" (Loeffier) wherein the Radcliffe girls eloquently express the melancholy of the Psalmist, and "John Brown's Song" (Robert Delaney) which was a strange and certainly modern treatment of the poem by Steven Vincent Benet...
...Parzen," from Opus 89 by Brahms, Beethoven's "Elegischer Gesang," from Opus 118, and "Nunist das Heil," from Bach's Cantata No. 50. The Glee Club alone will render "Two Choruses for Men's Voices," from Mozart's "Cantatas for the Freemasons," while Loefiller's "By the Waters of Babylon," will be sung by the Choral Society...
...Manhattan, Mr. & Mrs. Miller Durs had their two-room bungalow set on wheels, engaged Joseph Schiro, trucking contractor, to tow7 them to Babylon. L. I. They came to a halt in East 58th Street when the driver unhitched his truck, left the bungalow stranded because a patrolman found it had no trailer license. While courts, police and lawyers bickered over contracts, licenses, and sanitation laws, the Durs cooked, ate. slept in the bungalow, got a summons for parking overtime, reached Babylon two days late...
...civilization in Kentucky. The Chicago Daily News had sent Reporter Robert J. Casey to view some diggings at Wickliffe, Ky. Thence he wired excited reports of "The American equivalent of Tutankhamen's tomb"; "evidence that a people had mastered the elements of community life and government while Babylon ruled the known world"; ". . . its mystery is one with Angkor and Karkemish. . . ." By every definition of news such a report, if true, should have been splashed across every front page in the land. The Daily News did front page it, but under modest two-column headlines. The rest of the Press...