Word: originating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...amusement: it is a rage "), and the odd people and places he encountered. The Godstone of the book's title is an idol for controlling weather and crop fertility, reportedly venerated as late as this century, and White was determined to unravel the mystery of its origin. Mainland oldsters remembered the idol, all right, but they were evasive, afraid that White would impugn their Catholicism with a report of pagan behavior. In the end, the author reports mischievously, the Godstone turned out to be the stone pillow of an early saint...
Signed by Governor Furcolo on Wednesday, the bill prohibits landlords from discriminating on the basis of "race, color, creed, or national origin" in choosing tenants. The law, which applies to privately owned apartment houses with three or more units, extends the present ban on discrimination in publicly financed housing...
PORT SAID, April 6--Egyptian authorities in Port Said said a Soviet ship with 855 fully armed men of Kurdish origin sailed through the Suez Canal last night, bound for turbulent Iraq. Such a landing would raise a new and significant threat in the sensitive oil producing areas of the Middle East...
Lowering thermometers and other instruments through the hole to the hot (about 150° C.) mantle should solve many mysteries about the earth's structure and origin. A continuous core sample through the sediments of the ocean floor may provide what AMSOCers call "the most fabulous history book of all time"-an uninterrupted record of the earth's development for 2 billion years. And somewhere below there may still be traces of the face of the earth as it was when it began...
...were always a sign of the ancient days." This suggests that "primitive Christianity may also return," not so much reuniting man with his immediate past as carrying him far back through the centuries, to begin again at Christendom's own beginning. And it is to this point of origin that Amadeus struggles to find his way-to be reborn in the idea of the Nativity itself and to stand, with his two brothers, in the same relation to the hope-bearing Child as did three wise men of the East 2.000 years before...