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Word: dominicans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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ISAMBART DE LA PIERRE, Dominican friar: "The executioner . . . said to me that he greatly feared he was damned, for he had burnt a saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saint Revisited | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...GUIN SÉGUIN, Dominican friar and theologian: "I asked her what tongue her voice spoke, and she answered, 'A better tongue than you do.' And I asked her again whether she believed in God. She answered, 'Yes, more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saint Revisited | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

Colombia and Cuba have six T-33s apiece. The Dominican Republic requested 25 Sabres last year, but has not yet put up the money to take delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: High Cost of Jets | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

Tests of Authenticity. As soon as a respite in Arab-Israeli war permitted, a French Dominican priest, Pèe Roland de Vaux of the Ecole Biblique et Archéologique null in old Jerusalem, and English-born G. Lankester Harding, director of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, visited the cave, which was in Jordan in an area called Khirbet Qumrân (stone ruin). They found hundreds of additional manuscript fragments and pieces of broken pottery, later discovered more than 40 previously unknown caves, many containing ancient manuscripts in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. Altogether, the manuscripts included parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dead Sea Jewels | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Meanwhile, in Palestine, a few miles from where Christianity was born, Dominican de Vaux, Archaeologist Harding and an international group of scientists and scholars are busy unraveling the crumbling scrolls, piecing together the tiny fragments, correlating texts. Current reports from Jerusalem tell of an important discovery that is still top secret, pending full evaluation. The work of the next ten to 50 years may open unsuspected possibilities for modern man, in the words of Dr. Cross, to "become 'contemporaries of Christ' in historical understanding and, with God's grace, also in the knowledge of faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dead Sea Jewels | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

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