Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems fair to give the Mayas the palm for culture existing in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans A comparison with the Incas presents some difficulties, but as Dr. Spinden points out. "The Peruvians had no system of hieroglyphic writing and no carefully elaborated calendar." They were thus unable to conserve intellectual gains. But the Mayas had a well developed system of hieroglyphs, mostly ideographic, that is consisting of abbreviated pictures of the thing intended or of an object associated with...
...find the wonderful city which the lineal descendant of a proud clan that once ruled a Maya province reported to Mr. Gann. But with fair luck we hope to return to the United States with some worth-while contribution to modern knowledge of this old world in the New World, this civilization that had already passed its splendid prime when Columbus and Cortez came...
...None can do the impossible. If the debtor is to be able to pay and if the creditor is to receive anything, a settlement fair to both countries is essential. It follows that those who insist upon impossible terms are in the final analysis working for an entire repudiation of the debts. The only other alternative which they might urge is that the United States go to war to collect...
...letter to the Trade Commission: "It is apparent, therefore, that during the time covered by your report the Aluminum Co. of America violated several provisions of the decree; that with respect to some of the practices complained of they were so frequent and long continued that a fair inference is that the company either was indifferent to the provisions of the decree or knowingly intended that its provisions should be disregarded with a view to suppressing competition in the aluminum industry." But he pointed out that what the Trade Commission had gathered went only to the year 1922. Under...
...Turrible thurible!" muttered the Philadelphians. All they had got for their quarter was an unpromsing variant of Vanity Fair, with faithful reference to Michael Arlen† in each of the first three leading articles, scattered mentions of Manhattan dramatic critics and their gathering place (the Hotel Algonquin), a theatre page by Ruth Hale...