Word: oak
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...such a sacred site in the old Biblical city of Shechem in Jordan an altar and a sacred oak existed, according to a tradition preserved orally by the Hebrew people for some 1000 years before the Bible was first written down during the 11th century...
...were perhaps written from before this. But the history of the Israelites in the Holy Land began hundreds of years earlier, and the first scribes relied upon oral traditions that had passed down from generation to generation. The tradition of a sacred area, with an altar and a sacred oak, in the city of Shochem begins in Genesis and reappears from time to time in the Old Testament down to the book of Judges...
...Genesis 12, the Lord commands Abraham to go into the land of Canaan "unto the place of Shochem, unto the oak of Moreh" (sacred oak). There, the Lord appears and promises the land to the descendents of Abraham, and Abraham then builds an altar unto the Lord...
...game. To spearhead the awesome (30 points per game) Packer attack. Lombardi boasts the league's most accurate passer. Quarterback Starr, who has completed 64f'f of his passes this season. He has the N.F.L.'s top ground gainer (1.318 yds.) in Jim Taylor, an oak-ribbed fullback who never runs around a defender when he can run over him and is a strong candidate for 1962-3 Most Valuable Player...
...Harvard are treated with great care elsewhere--and not merely by the military men. Other universities have Geography Departments in which the cartographer's skills aid the study of economic development, history, politics, anthropology, and geological and biological scientists. Mr. Skelton put the case strongly in the Adams House Oak Leaf: "Geography conditions the lives of men. It is a point of view from which the data of many sciences can and must be surveyed in spatial relationship or distribution. Maps are accordingly essential tools of the social scientist...