Word: furthered
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The International Commission has also worked to further the foreign experience of American students by operating both a low-rate foreign travel service and the International Student Relations Seminar which is held in Cambridge each summer. Many who attend this Seminar become interested in Harvard and enroll in graduate schools...
More surprising to the British were reports, spread excitedly by the New York Times, that the Pentagon was "startled." The British pointed out that their plans had been outlined to John Foster Dulles at the NATO meeting last December, further developed by Sandys on his recent trip to Washington, and...
¶ Judas Maccabeus was succeeded in 160 B.C. by his brother Jonathan, who eventually assumed the office of High Priest as well. Another theory identifies him as the Wicked Priest, since he outraged the religious purists by usurping the priesthood. Scholar Milik holds to this view, citing further the Scrolls...
¶ Milik's colleague, Frank Cross, holds that a more plausible Wicked Priest is Jonathan's brother Simon, who issued a decree (I Maccabees 14: 27-47) that established his descendants, the Hasmonean dynasty, as High Priests in perpetuity, also gave them permission "to stamp out, indeed to...
After Hours. In Cleveland, Patrolman Thomas W. Hill admitted to police that he shot and killed his wife, but balked at further questions because the day of the shooting was his day off. "and what I do on my day off is my own business."