Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This archeological find, made at San-el-Hagar on the Nile Delta, was announced early last week by Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg who is excavating the site of ancient Tanis. Unlike many Egyptian tombs which have been despoiled by robbers, this chamber, reached by boring through a heavy wall, was found intact...
...from silt from the bed of the Thames. Courts are 110 ft. long, 38 ft. wide, with a net-covered recess behind the server's court called a dedans, in which the spectators sit. On the left of the server's court, and continuing along the same wall beyond the low-slung net into the hazard court, are other recesses called galleries and doors. Behind the receiver is another slot called a grille. Sloping down toward the court over these recesses and over the wall behind the receiver is a shedlike roof called a penthouse. The server serves...
...racquets court costs only $50,000, has no royal recesses, is a 60-by-30-ft., four-wall court in which its few devotees play the fastest racquet game of all. The bats have small circular heads with long shafts, cost about $8, break at an alarming rate. The balls, worth about 60?, are made of tightly wrapped strips of cloth wound with twine and covered like a baseball, are slightly smaller than a golf ball, have put players' eyes out. With recovering, costing about 10?, balls can be made to last for 100 years. Played like four-wall...
Josiah Willard Hayden's agreeable job is that of giving away $50,000,000. Josiah Hayden is head of the Charles Hayden Foundation, one of the richest in the U. S. It was founded by his bachelor brother, Wall Street Financier Charles Hayden, who, when he died two years ago, left his fortune to "rear a nobler race of men" (TIME...
Fortnight ago angry Financier Young demanded that Guaranty reappraise the collateral. It did so, found that one of the three issues was "above water." This put Financier Young partly back in the saddle. Then last week, to Wall Street's surprise, Guaranty put him all the way back by resigning as trustee of the other two issues. Announced reason: "Interests of the holders of the bonds . . . may now conflict with the position of the trustee...