Word: spells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Will you spell out what you want in the civil rights platform...
Last week Dr. Pritchard told how he found positive proof of Gibeon's great age. After the University of Pennsylvania expedition that he headed had a spell of unfruitful digging, an Arab woman named Umm Azzat offered to sell him two old pots. One look told Dr. Pritchard that the pots belonged to the middle Bronze Age well before Joshua and the Israelites invaded the Holy Land about 1200 B.C. Dr. Pritchard not only bought the pots but hired the woman as his "consultant." After a little coaxing she took him to her tomato patch...
...Education of the Virgin-a painting dominated not so much by the young Virgin or the brooding St. Anne as by the unearthly light shed by a candle that is partially shielded by the girl's translucent hand. In the Cleveland Museum's Repentant St. Peter, the spell is cast by a lantern that bathes St. Peter's ordeal in a glow of searing red that seems on the verge of bursting into flames. This summer Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the purchase of The Fortune Teller-a canvas so finely preserved that...
...realize that in many cases, even if a company succeeds in bringing a new product to market, it may not have the facilities to sell it, or a market big enough to make money. The big talk in the electronics industry is of the coming "shake-out" that will spell doom for many of the 5,000 firms now in the industry. Even in the glamorous transistor field, only the strongest and most inventive companies can hope to prosper in the increasingly tough competition...
...made him a grandfather), he belies his retired status as a Hopkins professor emeritus, keeps busy teaching, seeing children with difficulties, and writing. Unable to resist a little joke, Dr. Kanner says of his ophthalmologist son: "We're both in the 'I' business, only he spells it eye and I spell...