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Kenworthy finished the first half by scoring in the 33rd, 37th and 40th minutes. First the Crimson skipper pushed a Nicholas pass into the goal from about 10 yards out. Then he sent a powerful volley past the Jumbo netminder from right outside...
Your story on abortion [NATION, Sept. 24] says that medieval theologians estimated that "the soul joined the body at the 40th day of pregnancy." Forty is a magical number. The biblical Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights, Ali Baba had 40 thieves, and Moses wandered in the wilderness for 40 days. Suleiman died standing up, leaning on his cane. Nobody realized he was dead until 40 days later, when he finally fell...
...from his father's belittling ways. But in the course of an awkward, misbegotten summer holiday, the captivating old egotist outrides his son on horseback, humiliates him with the neighbors at the dinner table, even beguiles the young wife into joining excursions her husband will not. In his 40th year, Tom finds his father as big and awe inspiring as he did throughout childhood, when he waited in vain to be noticed...
...greatest of the medieval theologian-philosophers, had opened the same door in the 13th century with his view that the soul does not enter the body immediately upon conception. On the basis of the sketchy biology of the era, theologians estimated that the soul joined the body at the 40th day of pregnancy. Church law, for a long period, offered different penalties for abortions before and after the entry of the soul, though both kinds of abortion were considered wrong. Citing these examples, the Rev. Charles Curran, professor of moral theology at the Catholic University of America, argues that there...
...Soviet Union may dislike Honecker's show of independence, but that show has been supported by Rumania, which has often declined to follow the Kremlin's foreign policy line. When Honecker traveled to Bucharest last week to attend ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of Rumanian independence, President Nicolae Ceauşescu presented him with the Star of the Socialist Republic of Rumania, first class. Ceauşescu has refused to permit Soviet troops to be stationed on Rumanian soil and has opted out of Warsaw Pact plans to counter the new NATO weapons by installing Soviet missiles...