Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where permanent Jewish courts do not exist, questions of law are decided, as they arise, by rabbis or councils of rabbis. Any Jew may bring a case before the Beth Din; indeed, it is his duty, if he is bothered about a point of the Law. He pays the court what he can and, as a man of faith, accepts its decisions as binding, † When the Beth Din sits (daily except religious holidays), the rabbis wear prayer shawls...
...Quincy, Mass., not far from the starting-point of his ancestor's famed midnight ride, Paul Revere, 22, handyman, passed his auto driving test...
...contemporary European trends in art. Obvious lack of feeling is the essential characteristic of most of the pictures. But in place of deep and reverberating content, harshness and vigor often bordering on sensationalism is found. Head of a Woman, by Nolde, a blatant example of art at its lowest point, is a brazen conglomeration of bright colors and an embodiment of a cynical and completely unsympathetic point of view. If all aesthetic standards, sensitive taste, and a feeling for harmony were suddenly swept from the world, Nolde's painting, even then, would have difficulty in maintaining its position...
...Yale match the Crimson dropped two points in the first foursome as Ace Cordingley and Bob Graves were defeated in best ball and Cordingley lost his individual match. Graves, however, gave Harvard what proved to be the deciding point of the day as he nosed out Yale's Merritt on the 20th green. Henry Thompson, Jack Barr, and Watty Dickerman won their matches, and the Barr-Dickerman duo provided the fifth tally...
...moment later Grondahl walked to fill the bases. At this point Lupien caught hold of one of Maxson's curves, and the Crimson were ahead. To insure victory, Grondahl and Lupien pulled a smart Stahl double steal, with Grondahl ringing up number eight...