Word: incase
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. . . . It had been woven of osier by the Incas more than a century ago. . . . St. Louis of France protected it. . . . It was unthinkable that it should break.
This year for the first time all the rooms in the Government's $540,000 Portillo Hotel were ready for skiers. Cost per person: $9 a day with meals. (Idaho's Sun Valley Lodge costs $22 a day without meals.) Argentines and Americans, as well as Chileans, took...
In despair, Monge turned to historical records, where he found a rich deposit of high-altitude lore. The Incas, who ruled Peru before the Spanish Conquest, were altitude-wise. When they colonized newly conquered territory, they always sent immigrants accustomed to its altitude. When they warred against coastal peoples, they...
The ancient Incas fully appreciated chinchillas; they wore the skins and ate the flesh. Sometimes the Incas sheared them like tiny sheep, wove thistledown cloth of their "wool." In the late 19th Century, a rage for chinchilla swept the world of fashion-and furriers soon swept the Andes bare of...
What other race did so much, so long, with so little, asks Archaeologist Morley proudly? Not the Incas or Aztecs, he says -and probably not the Egyptians, Persians, .Greeks, Romans, Chinese.