Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might well have objected to all this attention was plain-speaking Charley Russell himself. "In my book," he once told a Montana booster meeting, "a pioneer is a man who comes to a virgin country, traps off all the fur, kills off all the wild meat, cuts down all the trees, grazes off all the grass, plows the roots up, and strings 10 million miles of bob wire. A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization. I wish to God that this country was just like it was when I first saw it and that none of you folks were...
...version is written in simple language, using the most modern expressions possible, including such importations from English as nyuzu for news (instead of the older kikoe), rampu for lamp (instead of tomoshibi). Otome (young maiden) is used instead of Shojo Maria (Virgin Mary).* Explained Translator Muto: "In postwar Japan, virgin is too often considered synonymous with sex." But Japanese ministers who saw the translation were happy at having a Scripture that everyone could read. Said Kagawa: "I am so pleased with this version that I jokingly told the ministers they would all find themselves without...
...Testament (TIME, Oct. 6). It aroused considerable opposition in some U.S. church circles. This week the Rev. Martin Luther Hux, pastor of the Temple Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, N.C., publicly burned a page of the new version. His principal objection: the use of "young woman" instead of "virgin" in Isaiah...
Jacobsen doubts that the U.S. will ever run out of oil. Oilmen estimate that of 2,400,000 square miles on the earth where oil may exist, only 1% has ever been explored. One huge, virtually unexplored such frontier is Alaska. On all such virgin horizons, Explorer Jacobsen cocks his questing, tireless...
...last week, thieves broke into 133-year-old St. Joseph's Cathedral, oldest Roman Catholic cathedral west of the Alleghenies, and made off with some of the art treasures inside. Among the nine paintings stolen: The Flaying of St. Bartholomew, attributed to Rubens, The Crowning of the Blessed Virgin, attributed to Murillo, and The Descent of the Holy Ghost, attributed to one of the Van Eyck brothers...