Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Protestant Cullmann here seems to side with the Catholics. There is scant doubt, he says, that the Matthew text is both accurate and very old. Furthermore, the meaning of the original Aramaic is crystal-clear. "Kepha" was the Aramaic word for "rock"; it is also the name by which Christ called Peter...
...Commerce Department last week reported that during September personal income was at an annual rate of $286 billion, $9.5 billion ahead of a year ago and a scant $1 billion below the August level. October construction, both public and private, was highest for that month in history, and total construction for the first ten months hit $29.1 billion, up 7% from 1952. As more good earnings and sales reports rolled in, the stock market continued its eight-week rise, sending the Dow-Jones industrial average climbing up to 278.83, the highest since last spring. Commodity prices edged up also, extending...
...guard the character of the Square, an Association of Louisburg Residents who own the Square has struggled with a slow infiltration of moderninity from the quicker-moving surrounding streets. The first house was built in the Square in 1834, and a scant ten years later, the Association held its first annual meeting to "enlarge and adorn the said Square for the material andvantage and enjoyment of said Parties." For that first meeting there were seven Proprietors, the number swelling since then to twenty...
...went on, "I see another good friend, Martin Durkin . . . We are going to miss Martin Durkin in Washington. I am sure Mrs. Nixon will agree with me [that] we are going to miss Mrs. Durkin . . . one of the most gracious ladies ever to be in Washington." This made scant impression, however, if only because the delegates knew what Nixon apparently had failed to realize-that the Durkins have lived in Washington for years and still...
...triangular course, billowed out his spinnaker to catch the wind for the second mark, then reached for home. All the way, he shrewdly covered Charlie Ill's boat (i.e., protected his edge in points by duplicating Ill's maneuvers, tack for tack). A scant 100 yards from the finish, Gene overtook the lead boat of the Maine Yacht Racing Association's James Ducey, who had lost time on an ill-advised tack, and sluiced in first. With 48½ points over Ill's 45-4, Gene Walet was the year's top skipper. Glowed Gene...