Word: jades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that they had to beat their way into their own house past forgetful relatives. They drove doubt from their listeners' minds by many changes of rich raiment during a banquet they straightway held, and by slitting seams of the rags they had arrived in and pouring forth heaps of jade, diamonds, rubies and other stones of the Far East. Even then they were not fully believed, and from the numbers of men and the distances they described, their audiences became known as "the court of the millions." Until just last year one of the things they related...
...Mercury has cheapness of another kind. The difference is one of kind not of quality or quantity. So he who smiles at the advertisement which uses Mr. Babbitt as its motif must remember that really that gentleman is not much nearer cultural damnation than the readers of the jade journal of the eccentric reputation...
...functions tamely; that igloos are seldom built of snow, but usually of driftwood and turfs; that William T. Lopp, onetime U. S. education chief for Alaska, got the Eskimos started in the reindeer industry, of which Carl Lomen is king; that there is said to be a mountain of jade in the wild hinterland; that Eskimo seamstresses wear their teeth to the gums chewing deerhide into shape; that whaling parties will travel afoot 30 miles out on the unevenly frozen ocean hunting for open leads to watch for a blowing bowhead; that flocks of duck, whose northward flight beyond Barrow...
...himself an accomplished archeologist-the book recites in Thompson's own words the feats of dredging, and then diving, to the bottom of the home of Yum Chac, the Rain God-a limestone sinkhole 160 feet across and 150 feet deep-where virgins and warriors, decked with jade and golden bells, accompanied by balls of copal (aromatic resin), rubber and cotton goods, pottery, engraved golden disks, weapons, tiaras, brooches, mirrors, were flung as sacrifices from the high brink (TIME, Nov. 16, SCIENCE...
...earliest dated inscription is on a small jade statuette of 96 B.C. The great cities of Northern Guatemala flourished from the beginning of the Christian era until about...