Word: originate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before a select gathering of 75 scientists at the Harvard Observatory Friday afternoon. Dr. Fred L. Whipple, instructor in Astronomy, advanced a startlingly new explanation of the origin of cosmic static...
...York's board was only partly right. The original of Santa Claus was St. Nicholas of Myra, in Lycia, Asia Minor, of whom little is known save that he was a 4th Century bishop. In the 11th Century, Italians of Bari stole his body, built a basilica about it, attributed to the saint many a miracle. St. Nicholas became the patron of Russia, Greece, the Kingdom of Naples, Sicily, Lorraine, Limerick, of children, pawnbrokers, mariners, coopers, brewers. Children came to expect secret gifts from St. Nicholas on the eve of his feast (Dec. 6). This far from notable bishop...
Coriolanus: " . . .The fable is of oriental origin. It made its way somehow into Roman history of the legendary period and is attached to Menenius by Livy and Plutarch. Camden tells it in his "Remaines" (1605). Of course Shakespeare could read Livy...
...clever are Orthodox priests becoming in their struggle to survive under Soviet conditions that, according to the baffled Communists, many holy men now preach in Russia in the following vein, which was quoted by comrades as a typical example: "Jesus was of proletarian origin, the son of Joseph the carpenter and of a toiling woman. It is necessary to explain that Jesus Christ was the great Socialist and Communist predecessor of the Communist Party...
...This is an instance," said the scientist, "of the Oriental origin of certain motives which the Greeks borrowed from the East. It reminds us . . . the Greeks were late arrivals in an ancient and highly developed civilized world...