Word: heber
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...this book automatically disqualify Küng from serious consideration by the Christian community. Christianity's only recognized authority throughout the centuries is the Scriptures. To reject them is as disqualifying as a rejection of the Constitution by a pleader before the Supreme Court. Walker W. Means Heber Springs...
High Style. Of the four major translations in recent years, the two British projects, the Jerusalem and the New English Bibles, emphasize high literary style. The New American Bible attempted some simplification but the Good News Bible goes much farther. It shuns what one of its translators, the Rev. Heber Peacock, brands "churchy gobbledygook," as well as wording that might be confusing. In the 23rd Psalm, for example, "I shall not want" becomes "I have everything I need." Traditionalists may find that in the process some of the poetry of the standard versions has been clarified out of existence. Often...
...recruit subjects for their experiment, University of Wisconsin Psychologists Rick Heber and Howard Garber went to a slum, which typically is the section of any city with the highest concentration of the mentally retarded. Initial testing showed that retarded mothers are likely to have retarded children, but did not reveal the reason. Heber and Garber suspected that it was the way in which the retarded mothers dealt with their children that made the critical difference between them and the children of equally impoverished mothers of normal intelligence...
...Heber and Garber admit that the experimental children have become "test-wise" and that the differences between the two groups could disappear as they grow older. Still, the psychologists conclude, the youngsters have accomplished so much that "it is difficult to conceive of their ever being comparable to the lagging control group...
...church work, rising daily at 4 a.m. for a period of contemplation before striding over to the church offices. A 13-month, 63,000-mile tour of mission territories in the late 1920s set the pattern of his global thinking; terms as Counselor to two successive Mormon presidents, Heber J. Grant and George Albert Smith, brought him more and more into top-level decisions. When Smith died in 1951, McKay became ninth president of the church and, according to Mormon theology, the only man on earth who can be "the living oracle...