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Word: witnessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foursquare Gospel discovered by Graves & Podro purports to be the Word as it was before the Gentiles began to monkey with it. Jesus, in the Graves-Podro work, was "a man of unusual learning, wit and piety," a member of a small apocalyptic sect. He was adopted by Mary Magdalene, crowned King of the Jews by John the Baptist at a ceremony that included a ritual mockery and beating. This, according to the authors, is where the mocking and scourging by the soldiers of Pilate really belongs. The Graves-Podro Jesus decided to bring on the Kingdom by his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: According to Graves | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...with Clement Attlee over the Labor Party's support for a Southeast Asia alliance and German rearmament, Bevan had kept to himself. Night after night he sat brooding in the "Bevanite" corner of the Commons' Smoke Room with one or two henchmen. Only rarely did the old wit flash out, the great laugh boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Rejected Man | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...wit: MERKRIES and LINKS-two cars advertised on his program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

Citation: "What the Lunts have joined together Dartmouth will not set asunder. thirty years ago ..........a new dimension was added to the theater of our time;.....You have paced each other with intelliogence, wit, integrity, hard work and unparalleled grace until it can be said of your performing art that words are never put to better use or needed less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

Born. To Victor Borge, 45, Danish-born pianist-wit whose Comedy in Music has broken all Broadway records for one-man shows (ninth month, heading toward 300 performances), and Sarahbel Roach Borge, 34, his second wife: a son. Name: Victor Bernhard. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

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