Word: walls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wailing Wall...
...your issue of Oct. 8, under the caption "Palestine,'' you indulge in ridicule of what millions of Jews and of sympathetic Christians regard as a custom worthy of respect. It is the religious service observed for centuries by the Jews of Jerusalem at the "Wailing Wall," the last remnant of Solomon's Temple. . . . You have treated the occurrence as humorous, and, apparently greatly pleased with the term, have at least three times in a short article referred to the outraged worshippers as "ululators," and, to subject them to further contempt, say "They screeched, they snorted, they piped...
TIME, never professionally humorous, regrets the semblance of humor which marred its factual report of what occurred when Jewish worshippers were dragged (some by the beard) from the Wailing Wall by brutal Arab police. The report chiefly concerned physical violence. It concerned only incidentally a religious custom which, on other occasions, TIME has described to the satisfaction of many a devout...
...belief of the coaches that the Crimson's showing Saturday will be in a large measure dependent upon the ability of the secondary to check Dartmouth passes. The line showed its power in piling up the Cadet attack last Saturday, and the same forward wall will be intact this week...
...back into his old halfback post today after yesterday's light workout, and did most of the passing for the Indians, Rooms, regular end, was absent from practice and it seems certain that Dankert will take over the left wing berth for the Harvard contest. Otherwise the Green forward wall is intact...