Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was John Fiske, who knew all the sciences and half-a-dozen languages before he entered Harvard where he added Hebrew, Sanskrit, Gothic, Icelandic, Rumanian, Dutch. "His methodical, orderly mind moved like a stone-crusher, reducing the boulders of thought to a flow of gravel that anyone could build a mental road with." Evolution was his religion. There was Francis Parkman, who had been over the Oregon Trail. Life in the West had destroyed his digestion and given him chronic insomnia. Arthritis crippled him. A nervous disorder "engulfed his mind." He had published The Conspiracy of Pontiac...
From the Seminary, neighbor of Union Theological Seminary, have graduated, since 1886, some 300 rabbis. There today candidates still spend four or five years studying the Old Testament and the Talmud, Hebrew literature, theology, homiletics. All rabbis know Hebrew, though English is now used for many services...
...Heiser relates that a doctor from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem discovered that the Syrian hamster, a type of rodent, could, by inoculation, be made to support the growth of lepra bacilli. In sharp contrast is your statement that: "Since the lepra bacillus will grow in no other animal...
...TIME queried President Perry Burgess of the Leonard Wood Memorial for the Eradication of Leprosy. Says he: ". . . Much excitement was created at the Cairo Conference on Leprosy two years ago by the reports and demonstrations which Dr. Saul Adler of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem made with respect to his attempts to transmit human leprosy to a small rodent found in the vicinity of Mt. Ararat and which is called the Syrian hamster...