Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lately have scholars accumulated enough facts to be able to settle down to a sober appraisal of the scrolls' significance. The majority verdict: the scrolls do not shake the foundations of Christianity, but they greatly contribute to the understanding of those foundations. As U.S. Old Testament Scholar Frank Cross of McCormick Theological Seminary puts it: the writers of the scrolls and of the New Testament "draw on common resources of language, theological themes, and concepts . . . The strange world of the New Testament becomes less baffling, less exotic." Says Hebrew Scholar Theodor Caster of Dropsie College: "They recover...
Wagner robbed a bank in Richmond, III., last August 29, shortly before he enrolled at M.I.T. He was arrested December 8 in Oklahoma City, after having spent all but $4500 of the stolen money in a wild cross-country spree...
Straus South, champion of basketball, the only "major sport," and of hockey and touch football, leads in the race for the intramural championship with 5301/2 points. Thayer Middle, which has won the cross-country, boxing, and fencing championships, is current runner-up with 454 points...
...Hurry up, Pascual, it's raining," home-town rooters shouted at Argentina's World Champion Flyweight Pascual Perez just before his fight with Welshman Dai Dower in Buenos Aires. Pascual obliged. In the first round, he hung on to his title by hanging a right cross on Dower's chin and decking the challenger with ease...
...stone with chisels, they also twist bits of wire, cement boulders together, and fire away at sheet metal with the blowtorch. In Manhattan last week the variety of sculpture on view ranged from the traditional figures of Rodin to the mobiles of Alexander Calder, and included a broad cross section of contemporary artists. Among them...