Word: purport
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...even broader impact. Many liberal Bible scholars treat Abraham not as a historical figure but as a sort of Semitic King Arthur. Their view is that the stories about Abraham and the other Patriarchs must have been written down more than 1,000 years later than the events they purport to describe. Now, in the area of the world that produced the Bible, Ebla has established that sophisticated and extensive written culture existed well before Moses and even Abraham, as early as the middle of the 3rd millennium B.C. According to the ebullient Dahood, "After Ebla...
...White House would like to believe him. Said Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese III at a conference of mostly conservative blacks organized by Sowell last December: "Some of the people who purport to represent the black community are talking about the ideas of the last ten years. You are talking about the ideas of the next ten years...
...cheapest King James is $12.50.) At the opposite end of the cultural scale. Scarf Press and David C. Cook have issued Bibles in comic-strip form. There are also vulgar paraphrases of the New Testament aimed at young "Jesus people," as well as curious "chronological Bibles," which purport to rearrange events in exact "historical" order. Reader 's Digest is at work on a condensed Bible. By 1982 it will cut the Old and New Testaments nearly in half, by trimming out repetitions and wordiness rather than by chopping chapter and verse...
...Soviets also make use of "clandestine" radio broadcasts, transmissions that purport to originate from within a particular recipient country but actually come from the Soviet Union or an East bloc ally. The "National Voice of Iran," a source of inflammatory anti-U.S. propaganda, is actually located in the Soviet Union. Furthermore, other Moscow-aligned Communist countries deliver more than 5,000 additional hours a week of pro-Soviet (and anti-American) broadcasting, more than twice the output of Radio Moscow. Radio Havana broadcasts to Africa and Europe through transmitters in the U.S.S.R. In parts of the U.S., Radio Havana...
...several Faculties at Harvard in admitting students; (2) a discussion of the goals that admissions committees might ideally seek to achieve in selecting applicants; (3) a review of the literature concerning the most common criteria for admission--prior grades and standardized test scores--to ascertain what these criteria purport to measure and how well they succeed; (4) a review of what is known about the effectiveness of other methods of evaluating applicants--personal interviews, letters of recommendation, and any other techniques in use at Harvard or elsewhere; and (5) a list of questions or topics for further research which admissions...