Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modernistic sketch of Jerusalem is so significant. No doubt the positions of the Star of David, the Cross and the Crescent were planned, or were they? From right to left, which is the way both Hebrew and Arabic read, they are chronologically correct. But what strikes me so forcibly, as a Christian, is that the Cross casts no shadow upon the City."" ... I believe both the Crescent and the Star of David will always cast a shadow on Palestine, no matter who was there first or who is there...
...David Hall, 28, is a chubby, drawling Tarheel who used to play football. Thirteen years ago osteomyelitis (bone infetion) cut his spinal cord and paralyzed him from the waist down. That put him on his back, but not out of circulation. He got through high school and the University of North Carolina in a wheel chair, went on to law school, two years ago married his nurse...
...training of a paraplegic starts almost from scratch. David could not dress himself or put on braces without help, could barely sit erect. But after six weeks of push-ups and other exercises to strengthen arms, shoulders and abdominal muscles, he was ready to begin crutch work. To walk, he had to learn to swing his body by gravity, like a pendulum. But learning to walk is only part of it. For a paraplegic, getting in & out of a chair or opening a door is a major undertaking, made up of many intricate, precisely timed movements which take weeks...
...David bettered par on every course. In his show for the Congress of Physical Medicine, he hopped briskly onto a platform 18 inches high, dropped to the floor and, by strategic use of his crutches, got up again in less than 30 seconds. Said David to the doctors: "Anybody with good arms and shoulders can learn to walk." None contradicted...
...Lord David feels that for Thomas Hardy this time has now safely elapsed-"the world he lived in is as much a part of vanished history as the world of Queen Elizabeth." Hardy the Novelist is the first important study in its field since Edmund Blunden's Thomas Hardy. Composed of a series of lectures delivered at Oxford (Lord David, 44, youngest son of the Marquess of Salisbury, is a Fellow of New College), it lacks the polished style and brilliance that made Author Cecil's The Young Melbourne (TIME, Aug. 28, 1939) one of the finest biographies...