Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the slowly advancing Chinese. They also cabled a petition to the U.N. The petition flatly rejected Communist claims of suzerainty over Tibet, contended that Tibet had "complete independence" from the time of the Chinese revolution of 1911 ("Tibet thereafter depended entirely on her isolation, her faith in the wisdom of Lord Buddha, and occasionally on support of the British in India for her protection"), denounced the Reds' "unwarranted act of aggression," appealed for U.N. aid because "we understand the United Nations have decided to stop aggression wherever it takes place...
Since authorities on Persian are scarce, how are we to know what liberties Professor "Arberry has taken with the Rubdiydt quatrains? . . . The fact that FitzGerald took them out of mothballs is proof that they were not best-seller material as Omar wrote them. In all probability Omar's wisdom would never have sold without a little romantic icing...
...mosaics date back to 537 A.D., 207 years after the beginning of the Byzantine Empire. In that year the Christian Roman emperor Justinian dedicated the present mosque as the "Great Church of Holy Wisdom," after it had been under construction five years at his command...
...conquering Turks immediately converted the "Church of Holy Wisdom" into a Mosque. Because the Islamic religion prohibits the depicting the the human figure in places of worship, the Turks covered over the Christian mosaic scenes with plaster and paint...
William J. Chadwick 51, last year's varsity captain, was master of coremonies, introducing guest speakers Bingham and Bolles. Bolles paid tribute to "the Dean of American Rowing," citing Haines' wisdom and inspiration in the annals of Harvard rowing...