Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impossibility that such a culture could grow up in situ, as it were, is always brought forward by those who think they see superficial similarities between the Mayas and certain Mongolian peoples. The calendar alone, which no one has tried to prove originated outside of America, shows the mental equipment of the Mayas, the presence of genius in their midst...
...modern research a certain readjustment of values comes out clearly, the small contribution made by the Aztecs to the ancient cultures of Mexico, the large part played by the Toltecs with their far reaching empire and the far greater primary impetus and development of a great civilization and calendar by the Mayas...
...Tenth Century. Mormons rejoiced, saying that this chronology coincided with their sacred accounts of the Lamanites, a lost tribe of Israel, whose religion Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were divinely commanded to resurrect. Historians viewed askance the use of the initials "A.D." (Anno Domini) in the inscriptions. This calendar term was first suggested in 775 by the English scholiast, Bede; came into general use about 1000. In January, a retired cattleman of Tucson told of an educated young Mexican sculptor, Timotio Odohui, who had lived with his parents at the limekiln 40 years ago and molded articles in a soft...
...Federal estimate, the National Bureau of Economic Research made public its estimate of U. S. population for Jan. 1, 1926: 115,940,000. The estimates of this Bureau are slightly lower than those of the Census Bureau and do not cover exactly the same period (are for calendar instead of fiscal years). The National Bureau of Economic Research calculated a population growth of 1,629,000 for the calendar year of 1925; the Census Bureau calculated a population growth of 1,757,723 for the fiscal year 1925-26. But the figures are sufficiently close to give point...
...every day that one can be an aesthete. A vagabond must watch the calendar warily, and when the fitting day arrives, pounce upon it. Bozo Snyder has left these parts to show his toothless grin to other audiences. There are those left, however, who still hold aloft the banner of culture, and the aesthete need not quite despair...