Word: feastings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Qumrân settlement, he said, was founded by a group of "religious extremists," the Essenes. They probably fled into the desert from Jerusalem's evil priest-king, Alexander Jannaeus, who ruled from 103 to 76 B.C. The unpopular Jannaeus was once pelted with fruit on the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkoth). According to Professor Allegro, this was the man who descended on Qumrân and arrested its leader, the mysterious "Teacher of Righteousness," whom he turned over to his mercenaries to be crucified...
...College Administration will still hold its annual spring party in Memorial Hall on Wednesday. Students whose last names begin with the letter A to M are cordially invited between 1 and 3 p.m. N to Z people will be welcome between 3 and 4; and various assorted delinquents may feast on what's left of the hors d'oeuvres between 4 and 5. Anyone not deigning to accept the invitation may pay a cheery little fine...
...Budget Director. Dodge looked over the shoulders of the Truman team as they polished up the $78.5 billion budget that Eisenhower would have to live with in fiscal 1954 (July i, 1953 to June 30, 1954). Before the year was over, Ike abandoned what he called "feast or famine" military policy in favor of the "long haul," with its accent on nuclear air power. Dodge, for his part, pruned $10.8 billion from the Truman budget, worked out a $65.5 billion budget for fiscal 1955, then went home to Detroit,* turning the job over to the man who had been...
...week, date, month and year on the Gregorian calendar, the Julian day and year, the movements of the planets, sunrise and sunset by mean solar time and true solar time, central European time, and sidereal time. Inventor Olsen's own favorite chronologic refinement: a calendar of church feasts, which at the beginning of each year records the coming year's feast days after the calendar mechanism has gone through 570,000 different functions in six minutes...
...last week the issue crowded in anyway, when ardent Catholics planned to turn the Feast of the Immaculate Conception into a political demonstration for the immediate return of all church privileges...