Word: urs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field of any dimension up to, and possibly including, infinity. It is Perambulator Klee's frequent achievement not only to imagine such a field for himself but to open it up somehow to the spectator. One water color in last week's show, Bird, Ph Feeds Ur with the Snake, at first sight only a delicately smoky paper with a tangle of lines in the centre, suggested a cosmic twilight and the chaotic, prehistoric figures of monsters. In another kind of shorthand, a gouache called Winter Flowers showed a pattern of slim stems and frosty white blooms against...
Born in Damascus, made Bishop of Baghdad in 1912, Syrian Dallal in 1926 became spiritual leader of Syrians whose faith is one of Christendom's oldest, who live on the sites of such ancient places as Ur, Nineveh and Babylon. Like his swart, bearded self, many of his flock exhibit in their countenances traces of their Jewish ancestry. Archbishop Dallal will find uncounted Syrian Rite noses in half-a-dozen U. S. cities, particularly Grand Rapids, Mich. and Jacksonville...
...depths chewed by the shovels of industrious diggers. University of Pennsylvania scientists sank a trial trench in 1927, were convinced that the remains of 20 cities or settlements lay buried in layers, the most recent dating from 1500 B. C., the oldest lost in antiquity, older by far than Ur of the Chaldees (4000 B. C.). One city after another came to light. Last month diggers under Charles Bache of Philadelphia's University Museum laid bare the Eleventh Level which they assigned to 3750 B. C. Before them was evidence of a civilization as high as that...
...reports reached Aleppo in Syria that Mr. Bache had penetrated the Twelfth Level, representing a town of minor importance, was starting to excavate the Thirteenth Level, a town which he called "P Prlent" and which he believed was built 6,000 years before Christ. It was thus older than Ur by 2,000 years...
...Leonard Woolley report one of his latest finds. A popeyed, club-footed little figure of alabaster, 10 in. high, found in a soldier's grave with its head touching the blade of the warrior's bronze ax, it was the first stone burial statuet turned up at Ur of the Chaldees, where Dr. Woolley has long been directing a joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania...