Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oral tradition of Hebrew and Aramaic underlying the Greek of the written Gospels made it necessary to use rough and often clumsy Greek equivalents for Semitic concepts. Hence, the treasury of scroll literature is enabling scholars to achieve new insight into the meaning of many passages. For example, the question of what the angels sang in their well-known announcement of Jesus' birth has long bothered Biblical scholars. "And on earth peace, good will toward men," says the King James version, and the Catholic Douay Bible has it "peace to men of good will." Now in the scrolls...
...miles away and 2,000 years ago. In addition to matching up the script, it is also sometimes possible to match fragments according to the material on which they are written: the leather scrolls were treated on only one side, making it possible to match the rough, untreated side of the skin...
...Doug Ford, San Francisco Amateur Harvie Ward and Defending Champion Jack Burke Jr. A new tournament rule, restricting the final two rounds to the top 40 players, had eliminated such venerable Masters as Golf Professor Ben Hogan and Dentist Gary Middlecoff, 1956 Open champion. But there were 18 rough holes and 39 rugged competitors left...
...most popular painter since the Ukiyo-e masters of the 17th and 18th centuries. What makes his sudden rise to fame so surprising is that Tessai's work boldly departs from the polish and finish of Japan's professional, court-painting tradition. Instead, he used a rough, impulsive brushwork that often seems closer to the West than to the Orient...
...Postmaster General is doing pretty well, but the Secretary of State may have a bit of a rough time. His department wants $228 million for various and sundry expenses, including, we suppose, plane fare and tranquilizer pills. Some of the concrete requests include $260,000 for "recreation facilities." These include a tennis court in Iraq, a clubhouse in Yugoslavia, a swimming pool in Port Said, a mountain retreat in Indonesia, a beach house on the Gold Coast, and a cabin boat for Martinique. Moreover, the State Department requests $135,000 for American participation in the non-existent Suez Canal Users...