Word: urs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DRIV-UR-SELF MERGER will push Hertz Corp., already dominant in its field (1955 revenues: $39.1 million), into 25% expansion. Hertz is acquiring property of New England's big (5,400 cars and trucks, $10 million annual revenue) Avis Rent-a-Car System from Boston's Richard S. Robie (TIME, March...
...girl, and settled down to raise a family. Last year, when her third husband died, Daisie King bought the Crown-A, a drive-in hamburger stand in West Denver, for $35,000, put Jack in charge (he also had a job as a mechanic at the local Hertz Drive-Ur-Self agency). She also made a down payment on a small home for the Grahams...
...each regarded the bull as the sacred animal, the chief constellation of the zodiac (or circle of life). "These correspondences," says Moran, "were not accidental. They were part of a vast cosmological system . . . The slaughter of a bull at the spring equinox on altars so far separated as Ur of the Chaldees and the Valley of the Han shows common roots in a common culture...
...priest, a demon, a god, or some ancient's idea of a joke? Was I molded and cast by a Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Kassite, Hurrian, Hyksos, Elamite, or by some barbaric genius of the Caucasus? Was my native city Eridu, perhaps, or Susa. Persepolis, Nineveh, Larsa, Lagash, Umma, Ur, Alalakh, or Hattusas? Am I 5,000 years old, or closer to a mere...
Elgin's Marbles. The non-library part of the museum has, among other things, a painting by the 4th century Chinese artist Ku K'ai-chih and one of the world's best collections of Dürer woodcuts and drawings. Its antiquities from Ur and Nineveh are outstanding; its Egyptian collection includes the famed Rosetta stone. The most notable items are the Elgin Marbles, taken from the Parthenon in Athens and donated by Lord Elgin...