Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Never buy a gift from a store near recipient's home, but from one farther away so it really looks like a thoughtful gift...
Jews are commemorating Passover with chanted prayers and symbolic foods-the bitter herbs, the salt, the unleavened bread. But on one high mountain, near Jerusalem, another people keep their Passover just as the Lord commanded Moses in the Book of Exodus, with the blood of lambs "without blemish" which are eaten in haste, loins girded for the sudden flight. These are the Samaritans...
Persecuted by the Jews and Romans alike, the Samaritans dwindled again to a tiny community. Today they number barely 350: about 200 near the Jordanian town of Nablus (Biblical Shechem), and another 130 across the border in the Israeli town of Haik...
...over a year ago. Equally soaring reports came from Inland Steel ("new first-quarter records"), Kaiser Steel (76? v. 46?), Pittsburgh Steel (66? v. a loss last year), Detroit Steel (83? v. a loss last year), Allegheny Ludlum ($1.18 v. 19?) and Granite City (up 70% to a near record of $1.62 a share). Only Lukens Steel was off the trend ($1.06 v. $1.54 last year), but expects the second quarter to be better...
Varnish Off. Near Santa Rosa, Calif., a sign by the Redwood Highway says: WE BUY JUNK-SELL ANTIQUES...