Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adie of Chestnut Hill, Francis Lowell Barton of Boston, James Laurence Carroll Jr. of Melrose, Randolph Harrison Dyer of St. Louis, Mo., Charles Lewis Harding Jr. of Dedham, Robert Parker MacFadden of Cambridge. Edward Walker Marshall of Portland, Me., Edward Reed Nash of Brookline, Stanley de Jongh Osborne of Guatemala City, Guatemala, Robert Winslow Puffer Jr. of Wellesley Hills, Alfred Hart Stafford of Newtonville, Robert Winthrop of Boston, and Kennard Woodworth of Boston...
...widespread civilization as well as a high one, for it left the carved facades of its urban centres over what is now British Honduras, Southeastern Mexico, two-thirds of Guatemala and part of "Spanish Honduras." To this oldest American civilization archaeologists have agreed to give the name Maya(pronounce the first three letters like the pronoun my). This is a name of uncertain origin, connected with a late Yucatan capital called Mayapan. It has been extended to cover a great nation which once numbered many millions...
...first real awakening of outside in Yucatan and Guatemala came with the reports from the American explorer, John L. Stephens, and his companion, the English artist, Francis Catherwood. Between 1839 and 1842 these two men visited and, with admirable exactitude, described "forty-four ruined cities or places in which remains or vestiges of ancient populations were found...
...Ambassadors Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of Spain, Chile, Belgium, Argentina, Peru, France, Mexico, Italy, Germany, Japan, Brazil and Cuba; the Ministers Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Uruguay, Switzerland, China, Sweden, Hungary, Finland, Guatemala, Colombia, Panama, Jugoslavia, Costa Rica, Holland, Bolivia, Esthonia, Lithuania, Irish Free State, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, Austria, Latvia, Egypt, Poland and Bulgaria; the Charges d'Affaires of Salvador, Persia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Paraguay, Nicaragua, San Domingo and Roumania; the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; the Secretary of State of the U. S.; the President of the U. S.; and the respective ladies...
Marion Adolphus Cheek of Berkeley, Cal., Thayer Cumings of Bedford Hills, N. Y., Nathanial Saltonstall Howe of New York City, John James Maher of Bridgeport, Conn. William Ichabod Nichols of Wilton, Conn., Stanley de Jongh Osborne of Guatemala City, Guatemala, Willard Learoyd Tibbetts of South Boston...