Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owners' objections in court, contended that the prayer violates principles set down in the ist and 14th Amendments to the Constitution. The A.C.L.U. took the case, he said, because even though the prayer is nondenominational, it is "offensive" to some parents. Orthodox Jews, he noted, customarily pray in Hebrew and with their heads covered...
Arnold J. Band '51, associate professor of Hebrew Literature at Hebrew Teachers College in Boston, opened the convention with an address Friday on four modern Jewish authors...
...wander through the ravaged countryside and closer to home as the game progresses. Along the way they encounter Medieval life in all its variety--from a young girl destined for the stake for witchcraft, to a family of simple traveling actors, significantly named Mary, Joseph, and their child, Michael (Hebrew for "like unto God"). They move among people who, except for the actors, are obsessed with the dread of death and try to escape their fears through cruelty, crime, self-torture, and superstition. The object of the knight's quest is to know--not just to hope or trust...
...Ecumenical Council proposed by Pope John XXIII will not result in the unity of Christendom unless major Catholic doctrine is withdrawn, Frank M. Cross, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, said last night...
...behind the seat in front of you? There's one item in this little slot which is the most ominous item in the whole damn plane. It's a little, innocent-looking white bag. There are instructions on the back in three different languages, French, Italian and Hebrew. And all they're saying, freely translated, is Tn here, slob. In here...