Word: clays
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...trying to identify artifacts from Old Testament times in the Holy Land is especially problematic. For one thing, virtually no written records survive from the times of King Solomon or earlier. The ancient Israelites, unlike many of their neighbors, evidently wrote mostly on perishable papyrus rather than durable clay...
...fact, we decorated it with both Christmas and Hanukkah decorations and we are going to make a menorah this weekend out of clay we bought," she says...
Finance Committee Chair Clay M. West '96 introduced the committee's recommendation of $34,775.52 in grants, $1,224.48 short of what it was authorized to spend. The council received $95,125.35 in requests from 149 student groups...
...legislation that Congress is considering, which would also slice up to $2.9 billion more from child-protection services nationwide. Republican cost cutters insist that the states can do more with less. "A lot of these agencies built the bureaucracy and have trouble dismantling it," says Florida Republican Representative Clay Shaw, "but the states can't keep up with the red tape, the regulations and the reports they have to file." Child advocates disagree. "What do you think it means to cut back on protective services?" asks Gail Nayowith, executive director of the Citizens' Committee for Children in New York...
...excavations, archaeologists believe they have uncovered the more than 4,000-year-old, long-lost city of Urkesh. Buried beneath a town in northeastern Syria, Urkesh was reputed to have been a thriving religious center for the ancient Hurrians, a civilization cited briefly in the Bible. Unearthed were clay tablets, metal tools, drawings and seals of the Queen...