Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...century B.C. The price of the scroll, slightly more than $5,000, was paid by a prominent mining tycoon with a hankering for archaeology and a strong dislike of publicity. In the course of two lectures at All Souls last spring, Dr. Frank M. Cross Jr., Harvard's Hancock professor of Semitic languages and a leading member of the international team of scroll scholars that has been purchasing, patching and puzzling out the secrets of the scrolls since the Bedouins, first began to bring them in (TIME, April 15, 1957), told his audience that there were still fragments...
High-Class Haggling. But Dr. Cross had bigger game in mind. Earlier in the year, while dickering for fragments on behalf of Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary with the Syrian cobbler Kando, who is unofficial middleman between the Bedouins and the scholars, Cross and his fellow scholars had been offered an exceptionally large piece from Cave 4 for $12,000. An old hand at the Bedouin bargaining table, the scholars began making counteroffers. Finally, last summer, during the height of the Middle East crisis, Cross and Jordanian Curator Yusuf Saad of the Palestine Archaeological Museum sat down with Kando...
Perhaps it was the heat, perhaps the fact that the course was choppy and in bad condition; certainly the time for the running of the University Handicaps yesterday was slower than last year. But when it was all over the first to cross the finish line was Art Cahn, with the aid of a three minute handicap...
While Cahn, a varsity half miler, was the first across the line, Dyke Benjamin ran the fastest time of 18:16 for the cross country distance. Cahn's time...
...million Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen) was thrown open to the public. It is built on a scale to rival the pyramids. On the rocky crest of one of the foothills of the snow-capped Guadarrama Range sits a sparkling, 5OO-ft., white granite cross, visible on a clear day from Madrid, 28 miles away. Beneath the cross, chipped out of the mountain's solid rock interior, is a huge crypt, 780 ft. long and richly inlaid with marble. The crypt leads to a basilica 130 ft. high, whose dome is adorned with a mosaic depicting...