Word: sacredness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The pick-and-shovel brigades have invaded Gibeon, where once the sun stood still for Joshua; painstakingly they have probed for the ruins of Gordion, capital of Phrygia, where poor King Midas saw his concubines turn to gold at his touch. The city of Ephesus, sacred to the goddess Artemis...
In many ways the Palestine of the Old Testament is the world's most in teresting focus of early history. It cannot match the magnificent ruins of Egypt and Mesopotamia, but it was always a corridor between those great centers and was deeply affected by both of them. Armies...
If contradictions mar the main theme of Two Roads to Sumter, omissions and blithe generalizations make all of its interpretations suspect. The book neglects the economic reasons for the War without so much as refuting them, implying that slavery and secession alone were at issue. It never explains adequately why...
If money is sometimes short, faith and courage seldom are. In 1961, San Francisco-born Mother Genevieve McGloin of the Sacred Heart of Jesus order got a $100,000 donation from Bos ton's Richard Cardinal Cushing, and started a woman's college in Uruguay a country so...
The chapter concludes: "Since the church possesses such a common heritage with the synagogue, this sacred synod wants to foster and command in every way mutual understanding and esteem toward each other . . . Moreover, just as it severely condemns injustices to men wherever they occur, so even more with maternal concern...