Word: testamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unshakable will and also my political testament to the German people." cried Hitler, "to consider inviolable for all time the frontiers of the Alps, erected between us by nature. I am certain that for Rome, as well as for Germany, there will result a future that is glorious and prosperous. Duce. just as you and your people have remained true to your friendship in the decisive days, so I, too, and my people are ready to manifest the same friendship to Italy in difficult times. Duce. I raise my glass and drink to your health, to the happiness and greatness...
Louisville's modest Chancery Judge James Garnett has legal power to interpret men's minds. Last week he had to decide about the last testament of Louisville's late Civil Engineer Charles K. Needham. Needham, a sentimental bachelor who died ten years ago at 80, once read Jean Jacques Rousseau's novel Emile, wherein that 18th-Century romantic tried to persuade French mothers to nurse their own children. Persuaded in his turn, Needham bequeathed money for an annual prize ($100 to $200) for the healthiest white Louisville baby nine to 15 months old. "nourished...
First of Dodd's talks on the general subject of "History and the Gospels" will be entitled "Christianity as an Historical Religion." On Friday he will continue this discussion by taking up the subject, "The Historical Tradition in the New Testament...
There is a semireligious inspiration behind the Jewish back-to-the-farm movement, for the Jewish civilization of the Old Testament was primarily agricultural. The three great religious feasts of the Jews-Passover, Pentecost, Succoth-are fundamentally harvest festivals. Though in the centuries of the Diaspora (dispersion) circumstances have forced most Jews into occupations from which they could pull up stakes at any time, there nevertheless have always been farmer Jews somewhere. Today there are 800,000 Jewish farmers in the world...
...work was published. Joseph in Egypt is the longest and most complex of the books in the series. Like the other volumes, it departs a little from the bare Biblical record, sometimes in minor details, sometimes by the addition of characters and situations that are not in the Old Testament...