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4 unusual facts about William F. Beck


Beck's American Translation

Beck's American Translation is an abbreviated version of "The Holy Bible: An American Translation" by William F. Beck (abbreviated BECK, but also AAT; not to be confused with Smith/Goodspeed's "An American Translation" done earlier, which is abbreviated AAT or SGAT).

Ego eimi

William F. Beck, Lutheran - The New Testament in the Language of Today (St. Louis, 1963).

God's Word Translation

GW had its beginnings with a New Testament translation titled "The New Testament in the Language of Today: An American Translation", published in 1963 by LCMS pastor and seminary professor William F. Beck (1904–1966).

William Beck

William F. Beck (1904–1966), Lutheran minister and translator of the Bible


A. J. Beck

Beck returned from overseas in May 1945 to enter the Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Andrei Navrozov

In all over $1 million was raised from alumni supporters, whereupon some 16 lavishly produced and extravagantly priced issues were published, with the participation of such contributors as E. M. Cioran, Philip Larkin, Lewis Lapham, Henri Peyre, G. S. Fraser, Roy Fuller, Martin Seymour-Smith, Ernst Gombrich, A. L. Rowse, Boris Goldovsky, Annie Dillard, William F. Buckley, Jr.

Capitol of Puerto Rico

The evaluation of the proposals was in charge of William F. Willoughby (president of the Executive Council), José de Diego (Speaker of the House, represented by Luis Muñoz Rivera), José S. Quiñones (President of the Supreme Court), and Laurence Grahame.

Cohmad Securities

On January 14, 2009, William Galvin, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, who is in charge of the state's securities issues, filed suit against Jaffe, a Cohmad broker for Madoff, who promoted Madoff's funds to wealthy investors in Massachusetts and Florida.

Colcock

William F. Colcock (1804–1889), U.S. Representative from South Carolina

Embassy of Botswana in Washington, D.C.

Notable owners have included William F. Aldrich, Thomas H. Anderson, Thomas Leiter (son of Levi Leiter) and the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association.

False Memory Syndrome Foundation

Members of the FMS Foundation Scientific Advisory Board now include a number of members of the National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine: Aaron T. Beck, Rochel Gelman, Leila Gleitman, Ernest Hilgard (deceased), Philip S. Holzman, Elizabeth Loftus, Paul R. McHugh and Ulric Neisser.

Frank H. Buck

In 1900, together with Burton E. Green (1868-1965), Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), Max Whittier (1867–1928), William F. Herrin (1854-1927), Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), William G. Kerckhoff (1856–1929), W.S. Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as the Amalgated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction.

Harold Hayes

As an editor, Hayes appreciated bold writing and points of view, favoring writers with a flair for ferreting out the spirit of the time—writers like Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Michael Herr, John Sack, Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley, Garry Wills, Gina Berriault, and Nora Ephron.

Harrell F. Beck

Beck’s contributions have been recognized with the establishment of an annual lecture series sponsored by the Massachusetts Bible Society.

Hugh Prather

His work underscored the importance of gentleness, forgiveness, and loyalty; declined to endorse dramatic claims about the power of the individual mind to effect unilateral transformations of external material circumstances; and stressed the need for the mind to let go of destructive cognitions in a manner not unlike that encouraged by the cognitive-behavioral therapy of Aaron T. Beck and the rational emotive behavior therapy commended by Albert Ellis.

Intermodal passenger transport

In some cases, facilities were merged or transferred into a new facility, as at the William F. Walsh Regional Transportation Center in Syracuse, New York or South Station in Boston, Massachusetts.

Leadership Institute

While the Institute does not provide instruction in philosophical conservatism, it does encourage its graduates to read classic conservative authors like Edmund Burke and "classical liberal" authors like Frederic Bastiat, as well as more modern conservative thinkers including William F. Buckley Jr., Russell Kirk, Barry Goldwater, and libertarian thinkers such as economists Milton Friedman and F. A. Hayek.

Lockheed J37

A committee under the direction of William F. Durand was set up to put the British designs into production and build an aircraft to test them.

Maliseet Vocabulary

The book includes an introduction by Professor William F. Ganong of Smith College, who refers to the book as the first work in the field, and asserts that (as of 1899) the young people of the Maliseet "care nothing" for their language and culture, and that the conditions making the book possible were rapidly slipping away with the passing of the (then-) present generation, although this prediction has fortunately not been borne out.

Military Professional Resources Inc.

General William F. Kernan of the U.S. Army also joined the firm after his military service.

Robert Beck

Robert J. Beck (born 1961), scholar of international law and international relations

Samuel J. Beck

He visited Los Angeles in 1869 at the behest of the W.H. Workman family and bought a vineyard on San Pedro Street, then moved to the city in 1876.

The Early History of God

The history of the emergence of Judaism and monotheism has been the subject of study since at least the 19th century and Julius Wellhausen's Prolegomena to the History of Israel; in the 20th century a work was William F. Albright's Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan (1968), which insisted on the essential otherness of Yahweh from the Canaanite gods from the very beginning of Israel's history.

William Albright

William F. Albright (1891–1971), evangelical Methodist archaeologist, biblical authority, linguist and expert on ceramics

William Denny

William F. Denny (c. 1860–1908), American vaudeville performer and pioneer recording artist

William F. Albright

He was also the Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, 1922–1929, 1933–1936, and did important archaeological work at such sites in Israel as Gibeah (Tell el-Fûl, 1922) and Tell Beit Mirsim (1933–1936).

William F. Badè

After short pastoral appointments at Unionville, Michigan, and Chaska, Minnesota, he returned to Moravian College as instructor of Greek and German, earning his PhD from that institution in 1898 with a thesis on the Assyrian flood legends.

William F. Barnes

He did have two seven win seasons in 1960 and 1961, leading the Bruins to the 1962 Rose Bowl.

William F. Bottke

In 2007, Bottke published a paper in Nature (with David Vokrouhlicky and David Nesvorny), proposing that the asteroid that produced the Chicxulub Crater and caused the Cretaceous mass extinction (although the latter is still contended) formed during an asteroid breakup in the main asteroid belt approximately 160 million years ago.

William F. Creed

William F. Creed (1845 - November 8, 1903) of Malone, New York, was appointed auditor at the Manhattan Custom House by Daniel Magone, the Collector of the Port of New York.

William F. Downes

His official portrait was painted by artist Michele Rushworth and hangs in the federal courthouse in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

William F. Dunne

He is best remembered as the editor of the radical Butte Bulletin around the turn of the 1920s and as an editor of the daily newspaper of the Communist Party USA from the middle-1920s through the 1930s.

William F. Durand

A native of Connecticut, he was a member of the first graduating class of Birmingham High School in Derby, Connecticut (now Derby High School) in 1877.

William F. Fitzgerald

On March 3, 1884, following the death of Justice A. W. Sheldon, President Arthur nominated Fitzgerald for a seat on the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court.

William F. Haddock

His next film was in 1911, when he directed The Immortal Alamo, which is the earliest known film version of the events surrounding the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, and which starred Francis Ford.

He often teamed up with early film actor Lamar Johnstone, the first time being in the 1913 film Hearts and Crosses, co-starring Lucille Young.

William F. Herrin

In 1900, together with Burton E. Green (1868-1965), Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), Max Whittier (1867–1928), Frank H. Buck (1887-1942), Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), William G. Kerckhoff (1856–1929), W.S. Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as the Amalgated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction.

William F. Kerby

Kerby was selected as one of the "Great American Business Leaders" of the 20th Century by Harvard Business School.

William F. Knox

In 1917, he formed a law partnership with William S. Moorhead, who later served as a U.S. Congressman from 1959 to 1981.

William F. L. Hadley

Hadley was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frederick Remann and served from December 2, 1895, to March 3, 1897.

William F. Martin

William Martin (born February 16, 1957, Bethesda, Maryland) is an American botanist, currently Head of the Institut für Molekulare Evolution, Heinrich Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf.

William F. McCombs

McCombs helped Woodrow Wilson become Governor of New Jersey and then managed Wilson's successful campaign for the 1912 Democratic presidential nomination.

William F. Meggers Award

It was established in 1970 to honor William Frederick Meggers and his contributions to the fields of spectroscopy and metrology.

William F. Milliken, Jr.

Later, continuing involvement included a term as Chief Steward for the Formula One US Grand Prix.

William F. Russell

William Fletcher Russell (1890–1956), president of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York

William F. Schulz

From 1997 to 2005, Federal Election Commission records show that William F. Schulz contributed a total of $9,450 to the campaigns of Democratic Party politicians Gary Ackerman, Geraldine Ferraro, Carolyn McCarthy, Steve Israel, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Edward M. Kennedy, Charles Schumer, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Bill Nelson and Al Gore.

William Galvin

William F. Galvin (born 1950), Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth

William Lamb

William F. Lamb (1883–1952), principal designer of the Empire State Building

William Moran

William F. Moran (1925-2006), knifemaker who founded the American Bladesmith Society

William Packer

William F. Packer (1807–1870), governor of Pennsylvania from 1858 to 1861

Zhawar Kili

Richard A. Beck, a geologist at the University of Cincinnati informed the Department of Defense that he could identify the rocks in a videotape Osama bin Laden released in October 2001 from a field trip he had made to Khowst.


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