Word: eleazar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Humberd escapes giving a direct lie to the Bible (Goliath, 9 ft. 9 in. ; KingOg of Bashan, 9 ft.) ; to Roman Pliny (who reported that an Arabian giant brought to Rome was 9 ft. 9 in. tall) ; to Jewish Josephus and Roman Vitellius (both reported a Jew named Eleazar...
Most important political upset was the removal from office of General Vincencio Pérez Soto, Governor of Zulia, by hollow-cheeked Provisional President Eleazar López Contreras. In Zulia lie practically all Venezuela's oil wells. General Pérez Soto was a politico in whom U. S., British and Dutch oil companies had largely invested. He was generally considered to be the strongest man in the country. He took his removal quietly last week-and waited...
...traditional rivalry extending back through countless years . . . a rivalry broken only once . . . a rivalry that has seen the great athletes of Harvard matched against the heroes of Dartmouth's Valhalla of sport . . . such is the rivalry which is renewed this afternoon when the Harlow-coached Crimson eleven meets Eleazar Wheelock's Sons of Dartmouth...
...America for 1932-33, just published, Lawyer Samuel Untermyer regains the distinction of having the longest biography in the book, 102 lines. He was outranked in 1930-31 by the late Dr. William Eleazar Barton (108 lines), and by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler (105 lines). Dr. Butler has edited his paragraph to 94 lines...
...embarkation on the Mayflower the story enters more familiar ground. But the actualities of the trip, the landing at Plymouth, the first buildings, the first plantings, the first Indians and their strange ways, all are materialized by Authoress Carlisle in fascinating detail. Meanwhile the struggle between John Dexter and Eleazar takes an unexpected turn. Hopeless of his brother's wife, Eleazar transfers his unholy zeal to an orphan, Purity, whom Anne has adopted on the Mayflower. His passion, countering the similar passion of John's son, David, is ended only when he violates the maid, leaves her to drown herself...