Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bible] is substantially the work of Moses. It is a closely knit literary unit and was originally conceived as one work written for a single purpose." Say the Protestant editors: "The Pentateuch did not receive its final form until about 400 B.C. . . . The contents of Genesis preserve no hint as to the names of its authors and editors . . . Whoever the author of Genesis was, he must have had ancient sources at his disposal, for no one man could have been witness to all the events described. This means that the present book is a composite work drawn from various sources...
...viewpoint, the special "Turnip Day" session had been a failure. Neither side had gained any political advantage, although Republican refusal to act made it easier for Harry Truman to pin a do-nothing label on the 80th Congress. But New York's Senator Irving Ives dropped a loud hint that Tom Dewey would probably disassociate himself from the G.O.P. congressional record in the campaign...
...student to watch was the Boston Mu seum School's Arthur Polonsky, whose sunlit Boy at the Fence succeeded in being touching without a hint of sentimentality. William Burden Jr., of Indianapolis' John Herron Institute, sent a finely patterned, authoritatively painted study of three bicycling kids. A Portrait o/Roslyn, by the. Pennsylvania Academy's Katherine Grove, showed just how finished student work can be, and the Rhode Island School of Design's Herbert Fink contributed a boy-iff-motion that few professionals would have dared tackle (see cuts...
...Celia Shanagher and Mrs. Bridget McAnulty, the same that run the Green Bay, they wouldn't tell on a duke, now, but they could drop a gentle hint, like, to some of the neighbors. So by the time the navy boys come back for their snack, the population has turned up in such multitudes it takes the Civic Guards to hold them back. Down sits the duke and his friends to a mess of tomato soup, salmon, steak, eggs, chips, fish, jelly, pears, cream, coffee and cheese the like of which Buckingham Palace hadn't seen since Paddy...
...kings issued a joint statement in the same vein: no compromise. But on the next leg of his journey, to visit his nephew Regent Abdul Illah of Iraq, Abdullah dropped a hint to the Arab press to stop the chest-thumping which makes compromise impossible. Said Abdullah: "The significant feature of the situation is not so much a matter of the Arab states being against the Jews but rather against the supporters of world Jewry in the international sphere. Therefore, I wish to advise the Arab press not to be too optimistic . . . not too pessimistic...