Word: ur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverend Mr. Brinley will give an account of the observations he has made during his recent exploration travels of the Americans, British, and Germans in the ruins of Ur. Babylon, and Kish. The lecture will be illustrated by pictures taken during the trip...
...seems that the potent King of Ur of the Chaldees, according to the vogue of 3500 B. C., had ordered a butchery to make a stage setting, so that he would not be lacking in entertainment after death. Unfortunately, some arch enemy of the King spoiled the scheme by stealing the royal body from the grave...
These and other matters concerning the life and times of the King of Ur were announced last week by C. Leonard Woolley, director of the joint expedition of the University of Pennsylvania and the British Museum. The finding of the gold head of the harp led the diggers to the grave...
...Ur, Mesopotamia, home of Nebuchadnezzar, birthplace of Abraham, the joint digging of the Brit- ish Museum and the University of Pennsylvania was continued. Finds included records of kings unknown to history, who reigned in 3500 B. C. Their graves contained hoards of gold and copper spearheads (in bundles), chisels, arrows (by the quiverful), a mace, axheads, adzes, beads and pendants of lapis lazuli; a gold vanity box, complete with tweezers; a gaming board...
John Daniel Hertz of Chicago, who stirred up a new demand for motor cars by permitting people who rented his machines by the mile or hour to drive the machines themselves (Driv-ur-Self [TIME, June 21, 1926]) last week extended the idea to motor trucks. The Yellow Truck & Coach Mfg. Co., General Motors subsidiary which he heads, now rents one-ton trucks to people who need a light truck either occasionally or for some emergency. In Chicago the Driv-ur-Self truck rates are 22c to 25c a mile...