Word: paragraphed
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...swears falsely by His name"-a dictum against perjury but not profanity. From increased knowledge of ancient Hebrew, the scholars translated the Hebrew nefesh to mean "the man himself" rather than his soul-since the Biblical Hebrews had no concept of soul. They also decided that the first paragraph of Genesis describes primeval wind, rather than the spirit of God, sweeping over the water...
Instead the Council passed the first paragraph of the motion, which requests the City Manager to confer with representatives of the University "with a view toward solving the traffic problem in Harvard Square...
Declining to Deny. Just who first spotted the paragraph about Family Member No. 12,427 remains unknown. But around the spring of 1961, photostatic copies of the page from The Blauvelt Family Genealogy began to be passed around. The person showing the page usually knew no more than was printed on it, and, depending on who he was, he either accepted it as fact or thought it a good joke. Newsmen heard about it and, understandably, became curious. The best, fastest, most direct way of checking seemed to be by asking the parties involved: President Kennedy and Mrs. Durie Malcolm...
...work. He worked very hard and conscientiously on this genealogy. He cross-referenced, and was very thorough." But, she says, "I have no idea where the item about a Durie-Kennedy marriage came from. My father must have made a mistake." He was indeed slipshod in the paragraph in question. He spelled Durie's maiden name Malcom instead of Malcolm, reversed her first two marriages., and neglected to mention that for a decade before the publication of his genealogy she had been Mrs. Thomas Shevlin...
...Family Genealogy-in the local history and genealogy reference room of the Library of Congress; hundreds of others have examined a copy in the Washington headquarters of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The White House, in turn, has had hundreds of inquiries as to the authenticity of the paragraph...