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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only Christians whose faith the scrolls can jolt are those who have failed to see the paradox that the churches have always taught: that Jesus Christ was a man as well as God - a man of a particular time and place, speaking a specific language, revealing his way in terms of a specific cultural and religious tradition. For Christians who want to know more of that matrix in which their faith was born, the People of the Scrolls are reaching a hand across the centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out of the Desert | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 28--Yale's powerful swimming team received a slight jolt in the first event of the 34th NCAA Championships here last night. Michigan's Fritz Myers pulled even with the Elis' Ray Ellison at the three-quarters mark in the 1500-meter freestyle, then stroked on to upset the Eastern champion in 19:04.8. This ties the Tar Heel Pool record set in 1949 by N. Heusner of North-western...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dyer Seen Best Crimson Hope For NCAA Swim Championship | 3/29/1957 | See Source »

Communists yesterday won control of an Indian state legislature for the first time. It was the hardest jolt to Prime Minister Nehru's ruling Congress party since the country became independent. The Reds scored their victory in Kerala, a new state established last fall on the tropical Malabar coast of southern India. Kerala's 13 1/2 million people are crammed 800 to the square mile, and unemployment is a perennial problem...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Hammarskjold Bound for Egypt To Arbitrate Middle East Crisis; Congress Committee Calls Beck | 3/21/1957 | See Source »

...gives informal talks to alumni across the U.S., the dean of admissions of a famous Ivy League university likes to give the old grads a jolt. "If you were to apply for your alma mater today," he is quoted as saying, "only 20% of you would get it." In that particular ploy, the dean is not alone. Says Acting President Archibald Macintosh of Haverford College : "I have occasionally talked to alumni about getting into Haverford today and have told them, 'I sometimes doubt if I would have admitted myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HERE COME THE WAR BABIES!: Colleges Are Ill Prepared for Their Invasion | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...picture is over? You can bet your week's wampum it isn't. That Oregon trail was 2,000 miles long, and Realist Disney seems determined to make the moviegoer jolt, bolt or Colt his way over every dad-burned mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

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