Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gurion, 67, delivered his "abdication" address in a radio broadcast to the citizens of Israel. He was convinced that, "in spite of excessive party fragmentation . . . the people of Israel are far more united at heart than many imagine." Then he concluded with a definition of faith, in his version of the words of the Prophet Habakkuk: "Righteous man lives by his faith. He will not preach to others, will not act the saint by calling on others to live justly, will not look for fault in his neighbour. But he will practice his faith in his daily life-he will...
...year, non-fiction outsold fiction, children's books had a boom (notwithstanding their dully predictable tendency to preach good behavior in barnyard parables), and a lot of good reading continued to turn up more or less unheralded. Finally, for the second year in a row, the Revised Standard Version of the Bible sold more than 1,000,000 copies, to lead all other current books...
...Though not enough to overtake the venerable (1611) King James Version. This year, as for generations, the King James was the nation's real bestseller...
Revised Standard Version of the Bible The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale Angel Unaware, Dale Evans Rogers Sexual Behavior in the Human Female...
Wrote Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt: "Distribution of the King James version in the public schools of this state would . . . cast aside all progress made in the U.S. and throughout New Jersey in the field of religious toleration and freedom...