Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such corrections and additions, Dr. Cross hints, are only the beginning. When the Qumran fragments are finally edited, scholars will have for the first time a roughly contemporary Hebrew check on the Greek Septuagint, for centuries the bulwark of Old Testament translators. They will also have some important revisions to...
That auspicious time came one day last week. The pilgrims swarmed into the nearby city of Allahabad (pop. 260,000) on 200 special trains, rattle-clatter bicycles, on foot and upon the backs of coolies and stronger relatives. The government had spent $2,000,000 and many months of careful...
But the Bushmen were friendly and hospitable hosts for fourteen months. "We never even say a quarrel among them during the whole time we were there." Marshall recalls. "At the end they were very sorry to see us leave and we were sorry to go." Besides good-will, the expedition...
The Communists' new "relaxing" look made more news: Since Jan. i, when Premier Georgy Malenkov threw an unprecedented New Year's party, tens of thousands of Moscow moppets have frolicked through the Kremlin, stuffing themselves with oranges and sweets provided by the Communist Party. Malenkov, along with other...
The prisoners were loosely guarded. One moonless night, Leriche, four other Frenchmen and one German legionnaire stole away. They soon learned why escape had been so easy: travel through the jungle was impossible, partly because of tigers. The fleeing men moved only by night, and stuck to the main colonial...