Word: reconstructing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reconstruct the story of Germany's A-bomb project, British Historian David Irving interviewed German scientists, studied recently declassified papers, and discovered a supply of captured German documents that had been lying unused and neglected for many years in an AEC warehouse at Oak Ridge, Tenn. From his meticulous research he has put together a chilling account of a project that might have changed the outcome of the war and reduced London or New York, rather than Hiroshima and Nagasaki to radioactive ashes...
...complement the planned expedition, Mark Adams '66, a graduate student in History of Science, has started a Quincy House seminar on Darwin and the voyage. Allen Tobin, a graduate student in Biophysics who is also involved with the seminar, said that the seminar will try "to reconstruct Darwin's mind during the voyage of the Beagle...
...reasoned that the ark was probably built of either bamboo or lightweight wood, both common to southern Iraq. To reconstruct the design, he relied entirely on God's cryptic commands to Noah (Genesis 6: 14-16) that the ark should have a door in its side, a skylight and three decks. The Scriptures mention three dimensions: the vessel was to be 300 cubits (492 ft.) long, 50 cubits (82 ft.) wide, and 30 cubits (49 ft.) high. That would make it somewhat larger than a World War II Liberty ship. After exhaustive reckoning, Ben-Uri concluded that to meet...
...scrolls precipitate us back into the period before the fixing of the Biblical text," he continued. "Once the text was stabilized during the first century A.D., it became impossible to tell what was the original material and what was edited. But with these earlier documents, we can reconstruct a chronological development of the text and write the history of the Bible...
Dickey says, "I have a very definite feeling about the connections of men and the world as it was before men themselves began to reconstruct it according to either commercial propensities or the heart's desire. I like the connection of the human body with natural, unadorned things, with lakes, especially with rivers, with trees, also with clouds--also with animals and birds. That seems to be restorative and life-giving; it seems to key the human being in bodily sense with the flux of existence. . . . My interest is in man as a very simple hunting and food-gathering, hopefully...