Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...church lies well inside the present wall of Jerusalem. But this does not bother the traditionalists, who attribute this wall to the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who ruled from 117 to 138 A.D. The wall enclosing the city at the time of the crucifixion, they say, was built by King Herod, and left Calvary outside...
This hypothetical wall has never been found, but for some time great stones have been showing up far outside the present wall. Recently the diggers found some more. Many believe that they are remains of the actual outermost wall and that the present wall, many times rebuilt, is Herod...
Whenever they could spare the time, the brothers waded out at low tide to dig in the gluey brown mud. In 1937, they found three planks which looked old enough for any antiquarian. Between the ebb & flood, the toilers of the Humber dug like inspired muskrats, building a mud wall to protect their find from being washed away by the currents. More planks appeared. Maybe it was a boat? By Jove, it was a boat...
...main enclosure, 185 ft. long by 115 ft. wide, has thick walls up to 40-ft. high built of basalt columns laid crosswise, rather like the logs of a log cabin. Huge rough steps lead to a courtyard. Inside is another wall, and inside that a stone-roofed vault. The man-made islets are separated by shallow canals, some of them choked with tumbled blocks. The citadel itself is in fair condition, though so overgrown with jungle that few details are visible...
...round by lifting the ban on margin trading on the stock exchange. Instead of requiring stock buyers to pay cash in full for stocks, they will soon be permitted to buy stocks on 25% margin-i.e., pay 75% cash, borrow the rest from brokers. This did not satisfy Wall Streeters. New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram grumbled that margins should have been set at 50%. But everyone agreed that the failing market needed a shot...