Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Robert H. Pfeiffer, Curator of the Semitic Museum, the scroll is believed to be the prophetic Book of Lameck, a primitive patriarch, mentioned in the fourth chapter of the Book of Genesis. The prophet's inscription was identified in the first few lines of the parchment by William F. Albright, professor of Semantics at Johns Hopkins University...
...Berard slipped away as soon as he could to join the big Navajo feast outdoors. While the Indians gulped boiled mutton, pinto beans and coffee, Yazzie moved from group to group, pinching chubby brown cheeks of babies in cradle boards, gossiping with oldsters about tribal affairs. Said one Navajo patriarch: "The Long Robes are all heart, but Long Robe Yazzie is a heart and a head...
...same old cast was on hand. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Red Dean of Canterbury, proudly fondled the immense gold cross dangling on his chest-a cherished gift from the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei. "To talk of peace in the Soviet Union," said the Dean sanctimoniously, "is like bringing one's samovar to Tula."* Italy's table-thumping left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni furiously denounced the Atlantic pact as an instrument of war, shouted that President Truman was "a pocket-sized Napoleon . . ." The U.S. was represented by party-lining Negro educator Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Germany by America...
...patriarch himself had taken time out from his Senate duties to intervene in the campaign-something he had not done since his own gubernatorial walk-in in 1925. He bustled about, trumpeting for State Senator John S. Battle...
...Education. Tilled by the Underwoods and their colleagues, Korea became one of the fastest-growing missionary fields in the Orient. Today 600,000 Koreans are Christians, and still more are educated. When the missionaries came, Korea was almost completely illiterate; today the literacy rate is about 60%. Patriarch Underwood founded Chosen Christian College in Seoul. Later it was headed by son Horace, who worked in Korea for 32 years before he found time to be ordained in the Presbyterian ministry. Ordained with him (TIME, March 13, 1944) were his twin sons, John (now in Korea) and James...