Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pictures were preserved by what probably seemed to Dura's Jews to be their desecration. The commander of the city's Roman garrison, faced with the threat of an enemy attack, did his best to prepare the city against Persian siege tactics. To keep the city walls from collapsing even if they were undermined, the commander ordered the street nearest the most vulnerable wall filled with earth, heaping it up over the house roofs to the top of the wall itself. To prevent the house walls from buckling, they were reinforced from the inside with earthen buttresses. This...
This hitherto unsuspected Jewish art may in turn have influenced the Christians of the catacombs. Except for representations of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, most of the earliest catacomb wall paintings illustrate scenes from the Old rather than the New Testament-scenes that may first have been rendered in the Dura synagogue's murals...
...Avenue, admen ante up with million-dollar chips, and on the same fateful turn, TV shows stake their survival, performers their jobs and networks their reputations. Every eye in TV is firmly fixed on the numbers that do what the batting average does for baseball, the big board for Wall Street and Debrett's for the peerage...
...Jones average, and made money because it was a blue-chip market in which the leaders rose fastest. But in 1956, playing the averages did not pay off; the blue chips backed and filled all year long. Last week, in the first days of 1957, almost every Wall Street commentator was warning investors to beware the averages this year; playing them would not pay. Blue-chip prices are now so high that the Dow-Jones 30 industrials yield only 4.55% v. a yield of 4.29% for 40 bonds. Said Paine, Webber's topflight Analyst Luttrell Maclin: "The Dow-Jones...
While the averages are useful tools to Wall Street's professionals, they can mislead amateur investors into buying or selling at the wrong time. Many investors seldom bother to learn how the averages are compiled; nor are they aware of what they really mean. Investors, for example, often talk of a "$6 rise" on the Dow-Jones industrial average. Actually, the Dow-Jones is not a dollar average at all, but a point average. Dow statisticians calculate it by totaling the per-share value of 30 prime industrial stocks (among them: Du Pont, General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel...