Word: reckoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must reckon with the possibility," said Dr. May, "that the exodus from Egypt was under the aegis of the snake deity of the Levite tribe, Nehushtan." Moses' rod turned into a serpent when God told him to cast it down (a miracle later performed by Aaron before Pharaoh) and the snake rod was later used by Moses to bring the ten plagues on Egypt...
Last week the U. S., counting its weapons for democracy's defense, could reckon more or less exactly what it had and might produce in guns, planes, tanks, soldiers. But it had no means of determining something even more important: the number and quality of its democrats. Closest it could get was a report by a group of educators last week on what U. S. schools were doing to instill democratic ideals: Learning the Ways of Democracy (National Education Association, Washington...
During World War I, the marksmanship of U. S. soldiers amazed Europeans. Should the U. S. be invaded during World War II, enemy parachutists may have more than U. S. soldiers to reckon with. Sprinkled all over the country is an army of 100,000 amateur sharpshooters (20% of them women & children), developed in the past decade on the skeet fields of U. S. country clubs...
...conclusion of a pact of mutual assistance [with Great Britain and France] could not be expected, we could not but explore other possibilities of insuring peace and eliminating the danger of war between Germany and the U. S. S. R. If the British and French Governments refused to reckon with this, that is their affair. It is our duty to think of the interests of the Soviet people, the interests of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
...score points in every foursome, but standing head and shoulders above the rest are two Seniors, Captain Ace Cordingley and Bob Graves. They provide balance plus at the top of the lineup, because they can match shots with any intercollegiate golfers in the United States. Every team opponent must reckon with that due and realize that it will be hard to take any points from them. Graves has never lost a Varsity match in three years of play...