Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the Qumran fragments are finally edited, scholars will have for the first time a roughly contemporary Hebrew check on the Greek Septuagint, for centuries the bulwark of Old Testament translators. They will also have some important revisions to make in the work of those scholars who had a habit of trying to solve a corrupted Biblical text by speculation on the translator's sociological background. The entire job of editing the Qumran texts, now being done jointly by the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem and French Roman Catholic scholars, may take "tens of years...
Dunlop adjusts to his double life with a blunt, plain spoken charm which can put both students and labor leaders at case. His students talk of his habit of referring to the biggest men in labor and management by their first names. The head of the AF of L is "George," the Secretary of Labor "Jim." At a beer party he threw for his class, one student asked him about the recent resignation of Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin...
...filed a TIME story at the local cable station and asked when it would reach New York. The operator calculated that with luck it might be delivered by the following Tuesday." Between Ndola and Capetown, the operator explained, there were an awful lot of elephants, and elephants have a habit of playing hob with telegraph lines...
Dartmough is playing without last year's first line center Bruce Haertl, who acquired the bad habit of running into goal posts and was forced by injury to end his intercollegiate career last month. But since then, veteran Dan McCarthy has moved up from the second line, and now leads Green scoring...
...Journal, as alert and sharp-eyed as a rooster, has a tabloid-moralistic habit of playing up any smirch involving a Milwaukeean. When the wife of a prominent businessman was caught by a pri vate detective in a hotel room with another man, the Journal front-paged the story: FOUND IN HOTEL WITH A FRIEND. Recently, a distraught Milwaukee housewife telephoned the city desk to beg the paper not to print the news that her husband had been arrested for being drunk and disorderly. "Lady," a Journal reporter told her, "I'm going to give you a break...