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Current on our campus is the historical revelation that not since Samson and the Philistines has an army been defeated by the jawbone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1954 | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...King-size (6 ft. 1 in., 210 lbs.) Pardu-man Singh of India, dubbed the "Samson" of the meet. Blackbearded Singh, a Sikh sergeant in the Indian army's armored corps, won the shotput (46 ft. 4⅝ in.) and discus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Second Asiad | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Prometheus stood more or less upright (proved by the fact that his spinal cord entered the skull from below). His teeth were more human thai, apelike, and there is evidence that, like Samson, he used animal jawbones as clubs. Dr. Dart also reported on a stone-working creature that lived in the Transvaal 500,000 to 750,000 years ago. His primitive "pebble tools" have been found in gravel pits, but no bones have been found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...performance of Samson and Delilah in Miami, Soprano Risë Stevens' breathtaking Delilah prompted enthusiastic operagoers to rush to the lobby during intermission and rack up a new house record for the sale of binoculars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...father, a stern old Boer scratches his name out of the family Bible and quietly dies. His wife leaves him. The whole family is ostracized by the community. "And I grieve for him," writes Paton, "and the house he has made to fall with him, not as with Samson the house of his enemies, but the house of his own flesh and blood. And I grieve for the nation which gave him birth, that left the trodden and the known for the vast and secret continent, and made there songs of heim-wee and longing, and the iron laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex on the Veld | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

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