Word: impetuses
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...Finally, as the result of 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...
...Russia the movement was started before the Revolution in 1917 and has received and added impetus under the Soviet regime. The cooperative plan has also been found highly useful in Denmark...
...itself is a piece of native work from Borneo which the Museum received last October. It was hung, with many similar objects, in the Pacific Islands room of the Museum for exhibition. Its turning motion was noted immediately and at first thought to be merely the result of the impetus caused by its installation. The strange turning continued, however, and gradually drew the attention of an increasing number of scholars and professors...
...Cambridge students. The opening night is rapidly becoming historic; Harvard evidently had different ideas as to the truth of Mrs. Young's comedy. The students demonstrated their opinions with violent mass methods. But this local disturbance only served to make the play more widely known and gave it impetus for a long run elsewhere. It was a creditable success for anyone; for a young woman of 32 it was distinctly gratifying...
Over these institutions of recent years has spread a boom spirit. This was given impetus by the completion shortly after the War of the War-built industrial canal, between the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain. Ocean-going vessels could come up the lake instead of up the 100-odd miles of winding river, gaining thereby some 60 miles of traverse. New wharves and new residence districts got under way. But the Industrial Canal, although available to the city remains unused. The city wants the Government to dredge a shipway through Lake Pontchartrain to the Canal. But the Federal authorities...