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...grew up and the things he learned. Tatum flies a Grumman jet fighter off the carrier Valley Forge. When he was a boy in Baton Rouge, La., his father gave him a BB-gun, with instructions to stand guard over the Tatums' little back garden, then beset by seed-snatching sparrows. David scared off the birds; frequently he hit one, but he didn't enjoy the sport. "I would look at these sparrows and think, 'He didn't do me any harm. He was minding his own business.' I felt guilty...
...religious history of Israel was to Rosenzweig a seed which, "falling on the ground of paganism, produces a tree-Christianity-in the fruit of which it reappears in another form. Christianity is, in fact, 'Judaism for the Gentiles,' through which the peoples of the world are brought to the God of Israel...
...freshman summary: L. Brownell (H) defeated J. Brownell, 3-0; Ward (H) defeated Berry, 3-0; Rose (H) defeated Seed, 3-1; Miller (H) defeated Fulkerson, 3-0; Tomes (H) defeated Elish, 3-0; White (H) defeated Irwin, 3-0; Rauh (H) defeated Billings, 3-1; Carrigue (H) defeated Gulick, 3-0; Reynolds (H) defeated Bletter...
...Roger's law associates, a dark, magnetic Jew who kisses her fiercely before a roaring fire. "You're a woman," he mutters thickly, "and not just a lady." So Emily finds "a man who would have been ... a master as well as a mate ... a man whose seed would have been as fruitful as his sovereignty was supreme, who would have begotten a son in the first consummation of union" - if she had given him the chance...
Profits from bestsellers help to finance deserving books for a highly specialized reader. Poetry books, such as Theodore Spencer's "An Acre in the Seed," do well to sell 1000 copies. Technical hooks that are expensive to produce, as "Early New England Potters and Their Wares" by Lura Woodside Watkins, must have a high retail price. Some of them are subsidized as well...