Word: cubits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Length of biblical (and British) cubit: 18 inches. David's Goliath towered six cubits and a span...
...What can be done?" the Commission asked-and confessed that its conclusions were not startling. Its plan was full of hope that the press might still add a cubit to its stature...
...problems of our time. At 41, ex-Communist, now-Socialist Koestler is easily the top intellectual argufier writing today. Still picking the tough ones, he has now written a novel about Palestine and the Jews who claim it as their home. Thieves in the Night will not add a cubit to the stature of Koestler the novelist. But Koestler the acrobatic controversialist is at home in Palestine...
...Last week, at Columbia University, Sevellon Brown helped open the first seminar of the American Press Institute. Thirty-eight publishers had thought enough of his idea to chip in $170,000 to finance a two-year trial run. Aim: through marathon bull sessions, to add a cubit to the stature of the U.S. press. Plan: for two to four weeks each, groups of 25 working newspapermen (average age of the first 25 students, 44; average newspaper experience, 22 years) would face a tougher grind than any undergraduate class. They would live, study and argue together, from eight to twelve hours...
Last week radio took thought and added a cubit to its stature...