Word: inland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cities discovered by our expedition the oldest is Okop, some sixty miles form the coast, or much further inland than the others and further south than all except Muyll, which is in about the same latitude. We know by looking at its architecture that Okop is the oldest. Its walls are thicker, the whole construction of its buildings is heavier. When the Mayas first began to build they knew little about the laws governing thrust and strain. Their earliest two-story buildings have the second story set behind the first on a solid mass of masonry. They dared...
Toward the end of the week the Cabinet yielded slightly, modified its original ruling so as to apply only at seaports. Inland, the Republican colors will fly alone. But German sailors, arriving at port under the "nine-tenths imperial" Merchant Marine flag, will be able to identify the German legation or consulate by the display of both flags...
...Denmark, diggers in a Slesvig bog, struck whale bones six feet down, unearthed the skeleton of a prehistoric species of leviathan which experts suggested might have been swept to his grave, 24 miles inland, by a tidal wave...
Emissaries from the governments headed by Calvin Coolidge, George V, Gaston Doumergue, Paul von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg and many another, sought last week the capital of Persia, Teheran, a city located some 60 miles inland from the southern tip of the Caspian...
FORTY YEARS A GAMBLER ON THE MISSISSIPPI-George H. Devol -Henry Holt ($2). An inland buccaneer tells many disconnected anecdotes of fleecing the not-so-innocents who traveled up and down the great valley before, during and after the Civil War. The chief characters are the three little pasteboards of three-card monte; the marked poker deck; palmed aces, loaded dice and Devol, who never would give up his takings, preferring a rough-and-tumble every time. He was an expert rough-and-tumbler and left a trail of broken noses behind him by his deftness at ramming with...