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Word: flooringly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) services were an hour late getting started in Madrid, but nobody seemed to mind. One of the 200 Jews who crowded the third-floor hall off Madrid's Gran Via explained: "We've waited 467 years for this day. A few more minutes won't hurt." At last the congregation, led by younger members bearing the Torah, began the solemn march, chanting the ancient Hebrew prayer: "Praised be the Lord, for He is good and His mercy endureth forever." Then the congregation president lit the "eternal light" (an electric bulb). Occasion: dedication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: First in 467 Years | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...punch bowl. Punch can make or break a mixer, he chuckled to an acquaintance he happened to meet. But Dudley soon slid away from the conversation, straightened his tie, adjusted his Sunday School pin--conversation piece, Dudley called it--and headed into the thick of the dance floor. At most mixers he had had fun overhearing conversations or talking with the boys in Ruby Newman's Band, but tonight was to be different. Dudley tapped the shoulder of a fellow who was dancing with a rather attractive girl, the type you like to dance with but still...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Punch on the Rocks | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

...Henry himself? In the quiet of his laboratory he looks at the floor and grins a little. "I got two fruit juices this morning, actually...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: A Blow for Freedom | 10/16/1959 | See Source »

Other Administrative members who will participate in the discussion are Dean Watson, John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, and Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House. Barnett Frank '61, who will moderate, plans to open the floor to general questions after opening remarks by panel members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Panel Will Discuss Possible Increases In Rates for Meals | 10/15/1959 | See Source »

Rabbis and Israeli government officials crowded around the open doorway as an elderly man was wheeled into the second-floor operating room of Jerusalem's ultra-orthodox Shaare Zedek Hospital, where Mosaic law is observed so strictly that nurses are forbidden to write on patients' charts on the Sabbath. The sheet-draped patient: Abram Setsuzau Kotsuji, 60, a descendant of Shinto priests. The surgery: circumcision, as part of his conversion to Judaism. As the mohel (circumciser) lifted the knife, he repeated the ancient formula: "Blessed be the Lord our God who has sanctified us and commanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Japanese Jew | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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