Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gilbert Highet ("I'm a classicist, not a mathematician") was for calling the whole thing off, but bearded Classicist Moses Hadas favored the exhibition. Meanwhile the university news office, citing the Columbia Encyclopedia, informed reporters that "because of poor time calculation in earlier times," even the birth of Christ "must be dated a little earlier, probably 4 B.C." Therefore, the news office implied, one year in Caesar's case hardly seemed significant...
...joined the army of the Duke of Navarra, at 30 went down in battle with a shattered leg.-The wound made Church history. While recovering, he read two books-Ludolphus of Saxony's Life of Christ and a collection of the lives of the saints-that opened his eyes to another career...
...Justices of the Supreme Court in the segregation decision had "prostituted both the letter and the spirit of the U.S. Constitution." The groups working toward improved civil rights "run from the blood Red of the Communist Party to the almost equally Red of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A...
Scholars disagree on whether the island of Cyprus (in Greek, Kupros) took its name from the Greek word for copper, or whether it was just the other way around. For 30 centuries before the birth of Christ, much of the copper known to the Mediterranean world came from Cyprus, where clumps of almost pure metal once lay loose on the ground. Agamemnon was said to have sailed for Troy carrying a brand-new sword of Cyprian copper. The weapon Alexander the Great brandished against his enemies was the gift of a Cypriot king...
...Billy Graham were coming only to warm the hearts of the faithful and to effect a few genuine 'conversions' among those whose lives are confused and disorganized and who are sorely in need of a confrontation with the living God as revealed in Christ, we would not feel apprehensive about Billy Graham. But he comes with a well-organized team of publicity experts who will use all their talents and his to 'put him across' on radio and television and all the organs of mass communications...