Word: israel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Times and several of the other papers which published the story, praise is due. They did not mention Solomon, King of Israel...
...others unknown to fame but by the good they have done shining in God's firmament as the start for ever. There has never been a failure greater than to his disciples Christ's appeared to be on Calvary. They thought it had been he who should have redeemed Israel, but at the time they took all for lost. In St. John's gospel the very last account of Christ's appearance opens with a failure that was a prelude to something far beyond any success hoped for. Seven of the disciples, not knowing what to do, returned to their...
...skull of Henry A. Brown, a patient in the Beth Israel Hospital, New York, was opened under only a local anaesthetic (cocaine) by Dr. K. Winfield Ney and assisting surgeons, and a large brain tumor successfully removed. Brown was fully conscious throughout the operation, was able to answer the doctors' questions, and coöperated cheerfully. He is now convalescing and is thought to be on the way to full recovery, though his life had been despaired of before the operation. His condition was such that he probably could not have survived such an operation under a general anaesthetic...
...Israel Zangwill: "I told an audience in London that the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine is now in a hopeless muddle: 'The British have got a mandate without giving the Jews a nation.'" William T. Tilden, II: "In my new book on tennis I protest against the sports common in American scholastic life. 'Can you imagine,' I say, 'a group of busy merchants running out to the club for a bit of football in the afternoon? Will they organize their baseball team? Can you imagine inviting your best friend to "come...
...without let or hindrance. His style is somewhat wordy, but of unsurpassed brilliance in some parts, as, for example, where he describes the utter lowliness of the manger. Another characteristic of the book is its succession of keen historical settings. In three short pages he traces the history of Israel from the days of the slavery in Egypt to the later slavery under Rome. And he does it with such vividness that the reader really lives in the time of Christ. Renan, Stalker, Edersheim and any number of others have written the life of Christ. Renan's opening sentence...