Word: drawn
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...prayers, no sermons, no hymns or Bible reading. It will not be broadcast on Sunday, but on Friday evenings from 8 to 8:30, competing with regular commercial programs. Titled Great Scenes from Great Plays, it will devote nearly the whole half-hour to a drama. The only moral drawn will be a reference to the relevance of religion...
...Catholic Biblical Association's new translation of the Book of Genesis (St. Anthony Guild Press; $1) is the first part of a new translation of the Bible. For Catholics, it is quite daring. It is the first Catholic Bible in English to be drawn directly from the original languages rather than from the official Catholic text, the Latin Vulgate completed by St. Jerome in the year 405, and the first to use the "better understanding of Hebrew and of the science of textual criticism . . . since the time of St. Jerome." But the new text is accompanied by very conservative...
...hint as to the names of its authors and editors . . . Whoever the author of Genesis was, he must have had ancient sources at his disposal, for no one man could have been witness to all the events described. This means that the present book is a composite work drawn from various sources...
According to customary procedure, he said, combinations of roommates were arranged for the Yard and then the deans drew lots for the rooms. "The men living in the gym," Fenn said, "are those whose names were drawn last--just a matter of luck and nothing else...
Thirty-three players came out on the first day of practice last Monday, but the number had swelled to 45 by Wednesday afternoon. Veteran field house observers were unable to remember when a preseason soccer practice had drawn more than 25 hopefuls...