Word: towards
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...concepts. Hence, the treasury of scroll literature is enabling scholars to achieve new insight into the meaning of many passages. For example, the question of what the angels sang in their well-known announcement of Jesus' birth has long bothered Biblical scholars. "And on earth peace, good will toward men," says the King James version, and the Catholic Douay Bible has it "peace to men of good will." Now in the scrolls the idiom is found in its original form: "good will to men of [God's] favor," i.e., the elect in the apocalyptic...
...with the campaign by the Harvard "Veritas" Committee against the appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 as William James lecturer. The Committee, which consist of 8 alumni from New York and Boston, has sent out some 10,000 letters to selected graduates in an attempt to gain their support toward forcing a reconsideration of the appointment. Although exact figures are not available, the communications below indicate opposition to the campaign among alumni and others. Sheehan's and Representative Donlan's are the only recent letters against Oppenheimer's lectureship...
Khalidi, foreign minister until the Nabulsi government took over last October on a wave of anti-Western sentiment, is considered an elder statesman with leanings toward the West...
Thayer Middle, Grays, and Mower are still in the running for the overall championship. Winners of the softball championship can pick up 100 points toward the freshman championship, and the dormitory which wins the tennis, rowing, and track events can net 40 points. Teams also receive one point for each individual participating...
...raising the rates on advertising Congress would move toward eliminating the annual postal deficit. While there is not a categorical imperative to operate the department without a loss, the profit-seeking advertiser should bear the full burden of his cost to the government. Summerfield should couple with his present demands a new rate schedule which would bring this adjustment about...