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Word: incase (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to legend, a band of Incas fleeing through Peru in the sixteenth century captured a golden cross from the pursuing army of Pizarro, and to prevent its recapture planted it on the very topmost peak of a towering mountain whose steep ice-bound sides would be impassable to the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INCA LEGEND PROMPTS CLIMBERS TO SCALE MOUNTAIN IN PERU | 10/2/1941 | See Source »

The Aztecs were very unlike the Incas of Peru. "The Andean peoples, to generalize broadly, concentrated on the material technique of supporting life," says Vaillant, "the Middle American peoples [i.e., Mayas and Aztecs] on spiritual, or more accurately, supernatural methods." Symbols of Inca culture were their vast aqueducts and irrigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Aztecs Revisited | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

Pretty Maria Garland of Peru was dressed in a costume of the ancient Incas. Usni Pramoj of Thailand was a small but elegant figure in silken plus fours. Starlet of the day was seven-year-old, barefoot, pinafored Liana De Bayle, daughter of the Nicaraguan Minister, and a veteran of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THEY SENT THEIR LOVE HOME | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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