Word: christe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well aware that he was blessing Jacob instead of Esau; asserts that Jacob demonstrably served 25, not 20 years, with Laban; supplies Rachel's age at her death (41). He puts in Isaac's dying mouth a babbled prophecy that stretches back to Abraham, forward to Christ. Laban, unlucky until Jacob came to live with him, had sought to propitiate the gods by burying alive his infant son in the foundations of his house. When Joseph is born, Jacob prophesies about him as if he were a Messiah, his mother a virgin-goddess...
...supervise the whole production, had bits made under different directors and assembled the parts when completed. Best line: Butterworth's comment on Durante's party: "This place is littered with movie celebrities - and that makes some litter." Channel Crossing (Gaumont British). A financier (Matheson Lang) with a Christ-like beard is threatened with ruin when a clerk (Anthony Bushell), in love with his secretary (Constance Cummings), overhears that some of his securities are forged. The financier takes steps to kill the clerk. When he learns that his secretary loves Bushell, he spares the clerk's life...
...years ago when a poll was taken among Disciples of Christ (Campbellite) ministers as to the outstanding ones among them, Burris Jenkins was well up in the first ten. A denominational rebel like Alexander Campbell who broke away from the Seceder Presbyterian Church in Western Pennsylvania a century ago, he held an Indianapolis pastorate at 27, became president of that city's University in 1899 and of pious Kentucky University two years later. Not until he took his Kansas City pastorate in 1907 was Dr. Jenkins completely free and happy. A Y. M. C. A. worker and War correspondent...
Scrabbling at the bottom of a great pit 50 ft. deep, the diggers bared a necropolis of 200 graves which they ascribed to the Jemdet Nasr period, nearly four millennia before Christ. Despite the pilferings of ancient vandals, countless beads of lapis lazuli, carnelian, crystal, shell, marble, chalcedony and gold still encircled the necks and hips of crumbling skeletons with tightly bent legs. Up two long flights of steps carved by sweating natives in the clay walls of the pit were carried 770 vessels of alabaster, gypsum, limestone, diorite. and some of copper, all buried long before the Patriarch Abraham...
...HISTORY OF EXPLORATION-Sir Percy Sykes-Macmillan ($7). Who first went exploring purely in search of knowledge is unknown. Merchant-explorers more than three millennia before Christ were the Sumerians, whose high civilization glimmered before history's dawn. Exploration was a by-product of trade and conquest for the Assyrians, the Minoans of Crete, the Phoenicians, the Greeks. Anaximander of Miletus (Sixth Century B. C.) drew up the earliest known map of the world, which he regarded as a cross-section of a great cylinder hanging from the heavens. A generation later Hecataeus wrote Periodos, the first known book...