Word: parte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that so huge a stockpile of ancient art has survived is in part due to the fact that, remote and detached, Mount Sinai has long been a still point in a turning world. It marks a spot sacred to three religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. There Moses heard the voice of Yahweh out of the burning bush, commanding him to go down to Egypt and set Israel free. On the journey to the Promised Land, Moses stopped again at Sinai, climbed to the peak and received the Tablets of the Law. Among Christians, Mount Sinai is also revered...
...part of the success was due to the government's happy idea of "Volkskapitalisten" (people's capitalists), and spreading the stock among as many people as possible. Purchasers were limited to five shares apiece; only those with incomes of less than $3,810 a year could subscribe. By tempting the purses of middle-class citizens, the government hopes both to keep them from socialism and to tap the $9.3 billion West Germans have locked up in small savings accounts. The next issue will probably be the giant Viag heavy-industry holding company (coal, aluminum, steel, copper, electric power...
...fishermen can blame themselves for part of the trouble. For years U.S. fleets fished with such predatory methods that the Government now permits no salmon fishing outside the three-mile limit, this year outlawed the use of fish traps at the mouth of spawning rivers. But the U.S. has no control over other nations, whose fleets catch the salmon before they ever get to Alaska waters...
Other clergymen taking part in the installation service included C. Conrad Wright, Registrar of the Harvard Divinity School, who delivered the sermon, and the Reverend Leon C. Fay, Director of the Department of Ministry of the American Unitarian Association...
Three Middlebury College freshmen were arrested yesterday for allegedly stealing property worth $2000 from Business School dormitories Saturday night. The three admitted raiding rooms at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brandeis University as part of a fraternity initiation stunt, according to police...