Word: centurion
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...idolatrous service to the emperor-never on the individual right of avoiding combat against the state's aggressors . .. The Old Testament glorified war enterprises such as that of the Maccabees, while hundreds of soldiers were baptized in Jordan by John the Baptist . . . Neither did Christ warn the good centurion against fighting...
...those who looked long enough, every member of Acrobats' painted cast came alive. Among the performers: a smiling, bloody-handed centurion; a drum-beating dwarf; a quizzical, bare-legged blonde selling Eskimo Pies; a mean-eyed young man in the coils of a friendly python; a crowned, repulsively ugly juggler embracing a beautiful purple ball; trapeze artists necking on a safety net; an old maid caressing a toothed fish. They all hinted at a mingled horror and loveliness which might be the nature of Beckmann's still-undiscovered...
...solution (by British engineers) was ready by Dday. Sixty old ships (including H.M.S. Centurion, one of the earliest dreadnoughts, and the French battleship Courbet) followed the invasion armada. They were scuttled to form five breakwaters along the French coast, to provide immediate anchorage...
...preparing for the invasion from Mars," said Lewis J. Vorhaus '44 as he walked into the Union yesterday noon wearing the dress of a Roman centurion with armored vest, sword and helmet...
Joaquin Niu-Culmoll, pianist, will give a recital high-lighting the past five centurion of Spanish music, at Paine, Hall on Friday, January 12, at 8.30 o'clock. The recital will be open to the public with out charge...