Word: millennia
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...Times. Critic Davis not only condemns the play itself, but also questions the words on which it is based-notably the words St. Matthew attributed to the Jews: "His blood be on us, and on our children." This attitude, says Davis, "has been taken as warrant, through nearly two millennia, for a series of abominable outrages against the people among whom Christianity rose." The play, he grants, falls well within Christian tradition...
...stayed on the couch three hours until the drug's effects wore off. He got up feeling fine. After two years of delicate lab work, he announced last week, Hofmann had managed to isolate a mysterious substance-the chemical that has caused men of many races, through the millennia, to have otherworldly visions after eating certain kinds of mushrooms...
Grisly Jollity. Before entering the American slumber room, the authors sketch the millennia of funeral customs that...
...search for knowledge has not only outstripped the senses, it has transgressed both time and space. Geochemist Claire Patterson has pushed back the origin of the earth to 4.5 billion years, and A.E.J. Engel. Heinz Lowenstam and Samuel Epstein described what the earth's temperatures and atmosphere were millennia ago. At the same time, the astronomers have probed millions of light-years farther out in space. Seth B. Nicholson discovered three more satellites to Jupiter; Walter Baade discovered a whole new family of stars...
...future fulfillment' of history is a conception that . . . can be given any intelligible or valid meaning whatsoever. In what sense would the return of Christ in some distant tomorrow fulfill the centuries of history which have already intervened since His First Coming, not to speak of the millennia which may well pass before history ends...