Word: hillses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The winding roads that run through the smiling hills near Dover, N. J., were populated with sadness; no laughter broke through the stillness; even the pudgy children, bronzed as rust, trotted, wondrously solemn, beside their stolid Slavic folk. Short-statured women, sunburned, stocky men, trudged ploddingly, bewilderedly, home. Whispers. Tears...
What happened that year on the centre court at Forest Hills is, as the editorial writers say, "history." That burly Norwegian woman, Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, had been champion for a long time. None of the other women could compare with her and she went through to the finals without effort...
At New Rochelle, N. Y., the mourners for Miss Mary L. Merrill took sad pleasure in reading her will last week. She had directed that $25,000 go to the Rosary Hills Home for incurable cancer victims at Hawthorne, N. Y.
Mother M. Alphonsa Lathrop, 75-year-old daughter of Poet Nathaniel Hawthorne, widow of Novelist George Parsons Lathrop (died 1898) had established this institution a few years after taking the veil (1899) to provide a place where destitute cancer victims could die in peace. No efforts to cure were made...
In Spanish Honduras. Dr. Thomas W. F. Gann of the British Museum investigated engraved Mayan monoliths that furnished an accurate check on the calendar archaeologists have worked out for Mayan history. In Guatemala, Dr. Manuel Gamio of Mexico dug into highland strata, discovered archaic pottery and sculptures clearly pre-Mayan...