Word: testamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volume by Professor Garrod includes all the lectures he delivered last year at Harvard, when he held the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry. It contains his lecture on "Poetry and the Teaching Office," in addition to studies of Matthew Arnold, Emerson, Arthur Hugh Clough, and Robert Bridges' "Testament of Beauty." The last-mentioned lecture was also given in New York City a year ago, at the request of Harvard graduates living in that city, and with the cooperation of the Clarendon Press...
...brown fishermen bringing in their shallow boats, piled with the flashing, heavy silver bodies of fish. You can smell the hot breath of Sanaa, see its turbaned merchants, Jewish watchmakers, fleabitten curs, and bearded princes. Al-Yemen reproduces a life apparently contemporaneous with the events described in the New Testament, but having no connection with them. Best shot: Hodeda's ship-bristling harbor...
...believe the ossuary contained the thighbone of Jesus Christ. He said: "The inscription 'Jeshua Bar Johoseph' is to be regarded as a mere coincidence, as no further particulars of the time of entombment or of the life of the man are available. . . . The historicity of the New Testament is reinforced in that we have found on this and hundreds of similar ossuaries many names that occur for the first time in the New Testament but of which we hitherto had no proof that they were current...
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...cross between poet, pirate and posturer is Gabriele d'Annunzio, snatcher of Fiume for Italy, first in the romantic hearts of millions of his countrymen. Last week, having penned such a last will and testament as only he could write, he could not resist the temptation to let Italians read it now. After briefly, dramatically bequeathing The Place of Victory (his estate on Lake Garda) to the nation, the will rambles...