Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been reading about the five missionaries killed by the Auca Indians in Ecuador [Jan. 23]. These young men were very fine people. However, let's look at the Indians' side of the story. The Aucas are well known to be Stone Age people, they hate all strangers, and don't want anyone coming into their territory. Why go in? These people have lived this way for hundreds of years, and I am sure the Lord must be interested in them just as they are. Let's use all our efforts to improve our own country...
Springfield "always has good divers," said Crimson coach Hal Ulen, but they can expect some of the best local competition in years from not only Greg Stone but Duane Turner, whose performance at Annapolis last Saturday shows he is gaining surety and poise off the board...
Finally Greg Stone, picking up poise and polish off the board, gives the Crimson diving strength that has long been lacking...
...stimulate young writers, giving them the necessary illusion that they are getting somewhere. Aside from the pure stimulus to vanity, however, publishing in the Advocate has other, more concrete, advantages--many publishers subscribe to the magazine, and for a number of undergraduate writers it has served as a stepping stone to more lucrative satisfaction. Another aid to undergraduate writing is the board's criticism of pieces submitted, a thing of no small value to the young writer, who is always anxious, although often timid, about hearing reactions to his work...
...great Jewish philosopher Maimonides (1135-1205) was determined, so legend has it, when the camel that bore his bones from Cairo to Palestine refused to budge from a spot near the Sea of Galilee. In time, the modern city of Tiberias grew up around the old square stone that marked his grave. The burial ground became a grubby lot littered with shacks and privies...