Word: urs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, as Cunard shares from $2 to $1.25, experts ponder would happen to No. 534 if left ur on the ways. Already she is in constant shoring up to prevent sa the fabric. It was suggested that at least the stern might be hurried to coi so that the vessel might be floated. Tied up at dock, she has better chance standing the unkind elements and the unkinder financial weather...
...January, Dr. Monroe will sail for Iraq, site of ancient Babylon, Ur. Ninevah. Now a British Mandate, Iraq will enter the League of Nations next year, end British control. Dr, Monroe's job with the Iraqi will be to modernize their schools, train them along occidental lines...
Last fortnight's obituaries of H. P. Re of Coldwater, Mich, said he had "the shortest name in the country." Immediately protests were made by Ed Py of Newcastle, Ind., Fin Ax of Indianapolis, J. Ur of Torrington, Conn., etc., etc. Then newshawks undertook to find out who really had the shortest name in the land. Baltimoreans dug up the name Tau-chun I, onetime Chinese medical student there, but they had forgotten that in China surnames come first. Winner last week seemed to be Aaron A, first name in the Chicago city directory...
...Preiffer, curator of the Semitic Museum, will give a lecture this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Fogg Art Museum, entitled "Excavations Undertaken by the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania at Ur of the Chaldees". The talk is in connection with the current exhibition of objects excavated at Ur of the Chaldess now on display at Fogg...
...Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple," and "Portrait of a Preacher of Holland" by Franz Hals, are perhaps the most important. There are also exhibitions of nineteenth century watercolors, Rembrandt etchings, and Old Master drawings, as well as the new loan exhibition of objects excavated at Ur by the joint expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of Pennsylvania...