Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nomad tribes found the parchment in a cache of scrolls on the shores of the Dead Sea two years ago. Since that time, little has been done with the parchment because of its condition. It is, according to Pfeiffer a roll of sheepskin which has deteriorated greatly over the centuries...
The translators' problem will come later, Pfeiffer continued. At present the great task is to unroll the manuscript without destroying it. The job has been turned over to Rutherford J. Gettens, the Museum's Chief of Technical Research, who is an expert on antiquities and their preservation.
A good segment of the sports world is having itself quite a panic over the television "menace": as more and more promoters and arena owners cry out that the new entertainment medium is grabbing too many dollars out of gate receipts. What throws the whole thing into confusion, however, is...
Harvard's enrollment, like that of universities all over America, is on the decline.
Dropping from 11,757 students in the University last year to the present total of 11,105, Harvard follows closely the five to ten percent decline in the larger public institutions, including all Ivy League schools. However, when the small schools are considered, the nation's college and universities show...