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...Blue Hens’ search committee, led by Roselle, will now narrow its focus to the remaining leading candidates, including current assistant coaches Ted Kempski and Gregg Perry and Rutgers offensive coordinator Bill Cubit...

Author: By Lande A. Spottswood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coach Murphy Won’t Seek U. Delaware Job | 3/1/2002 | See Source »

...period least thoroughly covered by the four Gospels. Mailer's Jesus writes movingly of his time as an apprentice carpenter: "So my trade became my pride, and I knew respect for the tools in my box. A rasp, a plane, a hammer, an auger, a gimlet, an adze, a cubit rule, a saw, and three chisels for paring, as well as a gouge--all were mine. And my knowledge of how to treat wood became another tool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: NORMAN MAILER: USING THE LORD'S NAME | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...gigantic laboratory experiment with language, Finnegans Wake is bound to exert an influence far beyond the circle of its immediate readers. Whether Joyce is eventually convicted of assaulting the King's English with intent to kill or whether he has added a cubit to her stature, she will never be quite the same again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books 1939: Finnegans Wake By James Joyce | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...there," says the fundamentalist, "and it's accurately described in the Book of Revelation. Heaven has twelve gate's and a 144-cubit wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Heaven | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

King James version: "Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Missionary's English | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

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