Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting, but it was thrown out by our principal, Father Stallworth, as against the constitution of the club. The whole issue at stake at this time was whether the Jesuits would continue to decide the policies at Jesuit High School or would surrender this right to the parents. The vast majority of the parents have approved our stand...
Much of the Scrolls' nine-year history is marked by uncertainty: first, in the incredible scramble by the Bedouin to find them; later, in determining their ultimate ownership; and still later, in assuring their authenticity. How much of the vast Essene library was lost by idle tribesmen, who neither understood nor cared for the Scrolls' significance, is unknown. Scholars hope that most of the scraps have been collected. Many pieces were returned when the Jordan Government's Department of Antiquities boosted its rate per square centimeter. Legally, all the Scrolls became the Department's property on discovery; it could later...
Meanwhile, a vast, disorganized combing of the Qumran area was conducted by the Bedouin, inspired with the scholars' enthusiastic appraisal of their first fund. The original Cave One was not relocated until 1949, when the Arab Legion undertook the search. Gradually the discoveries were investigated by trained archeologists. Lankester Harding, of the Department of Antiquities, and Pere de Vaux, of the French School of Archeology in Jerusalem, jointly assumed control. In Cave One alone, they found 600 scroll fragments...
Rubens once remarked, "My endowments are of such a nature that I have never wanted courage to undertake any design however vast in size or diversified in subject." The truth of this is evidenced in the variety of subjects even in this limited collection of his works. There are statue sketches, mythical representations, portraits, landscapes, religious paintings, allegories, historical paintings and genre pieces...
...Middle Ground. Do the results of the experimental pioneers justify their vast efforts? Modern art being as resolutely individual as it is, the answers are likely to be almost as numerous as the audience. Some see in it a new and vital means of human expression; others, while granting the decorative merits of the moderns, argue that they fail in the essential function of any art form: to communicate from artist to audience...