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There was something like ashy molasses in Ray Charles’ voice: dripping syrupy sweet with southern charm yet charged with gritty, unhewn candor, it resonated with a sense of immediacy and emotional clarity that was nothing short of divine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Reviews | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

Egypt was plagued with foreign wars and domestic turmoil; Nile transportation had broken down, and the supply of granite blocks from the upriver country had ceased. Unjebanenjebet combed the showrooms of the local coffin makers, but found no coffin or unhewn block big enough for him. He was 6½ ft. tall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Mar. 11, 1946 | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...author, while emphasizing the accomplishments under President Cardenas, admits that the agrarian reform has still a long path to go. In the meantime, we are assured, the former peons "now labor with new ferver and a boundless faith to wrost from the unhewn rocks of the past the Mexico of the future...

Author: By Fritz MORSTEIN Marx and Assistant PROFESSOR Of government, S | Title: Marx Review States Guardian Now Out of Literary Infancy | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

...Cornell Idea" prevailed. The first 412 Cornellians were scrambling around the unhewn Ithaca campus in the autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kudos: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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