Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the sea for Old Chersonese. Fishermen had told him of a wonderful submarine city off the coast of Sevastopol. Russian scientists set to work soon afterward with divers and giant searchlights, found Old Chersonese 210 ft. offshore. The city stretches extensively under water, is surrounded by a semicircular wall. Divers have walked about the large paved market place, now grown over with seaweed, have seen fish swim about in the crumbling houses. So far only southern and eastern portions have been charted. Scientists think that Old Chersonese is more than 2,000 years old, was sent...
...before they sacked the city. Recently British archeologists who have spent many months studying the ruins of the city which was destroyed almost 4,000 years ago, announced that they had discovered why Joshua made so much noise. A charred tree trunk plugged into a hole in the inner wall suggested that Israelite trumpeters blew blasts to hide the work of Israelite engineers who were picking holes in the fortifications. Every hole was plugged with a wooden beam or a dry tree trunk. On the seventh day, the wooden fillings were set on fire. Two walls surrounded the city...
...firm acquired, in addition to a wire system, a large retail sales and stock commission organization and entered investment banking on a large scale. It had previously participated in some offerings (Phelps-Dodge, Curtiss Airports, Petroleum Corp.), but never before was a large factor in distributing securities. To some Wall Streeters this recent vigorous expansion has suggested that E. A. Pierce & Co. cash-rich, is taking advantage of bargains. Other observers believe that little cash has been used. They say that E. A. Pierce & Co. has merely paid cash for the actual physical equipment, future payment to be dependent...
...Woman in Wall Street. The most impressive thing about E. A. Pierce & Co. is the inexorable System with which it is governed. Governess of this System is Ethel F. Mercereau, long-respected as Mr. Pierce's secretary. It is she who makes Pierce employes toe an exactly defined mark. Pierce men learn to check in early, stay late. If tardy, they may face a stern Miss Mercereau. Pierce men do not have the privilege of sending or receiving personal telephone calls during working hours. Pierce men may not send letters not approved of by Miss Mercereau. Pierce men know...
Mark O. Prentiss, criminologist, prime organizer of the National Crime Commission, returned from lunching with Charles Henry Tuttle, New York Republican Nominee for Governor, to find one Charles Faye, 22, looting his Park Avenue apartment. Noiselessly he snatched a Turkish sword-cane from the wall, forced Charles Faye at the point of it into a seat, made him talk about himself, made him demonstrate how, with strips of vellum and a piece of tin, he had jimmied the apartment lock. When his arm grew tired Mr. Prentiss changed the Turkish sword-cane for an Italian billy. Faye said...