Word: lagoons
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...parties searched out "lost" cities of the Mayan civilization to fill the, gap from 600 to 1000 A.D. in known Maya history. Dr. Thomas W. F. Gann, famed Mayan authority, led his aides along a giant, 50-mile stone causeway from Chichen-Itza to the lost, lagoon-locked city of Coba, a march often made ceremonially by the Cobans into Chichen-Itza and finally as a migration by the Chichen-Itzans into Coba, probably in the Sixth Century. Inscriptions appeared to bring Coba's history down to the 14th Century...
Spread out over an expanse of 65 acres, the somewhat scattered Exposition buildings have already been dubbed the "Wembly of the South Seas." A large domed Festival Hall, superficially resembling the U.S. Capitol at Washington, dominates a be-fountained lagoon, serves as a focus for the Expositional activities, and is expected to reverberate nightly to the syncopations of the noted Argyll and Sutherland jazz band, which New Zulanders boast of having lured from London at a cost ?5,000 greater than the total Dominion grant to the Exposition...
...lagoon 240 feet wide filled by water from the Great South Bay, canals flowing under pile-set villas, a fleet of gondolas imported from Venice, a huge swimming pool-these were the particulars of a Long Island real estate scheme announced last week by the Meister Builders, Inc. The site has been chosen, a 365 acre tract at Lyndhurst and Copiaque...
...funny if you are an aquatic bird (duck, heron, egret, gallinule, spoonbill, ibis, bittern crane) and, having flown down to Florida for the winter, find your favorite lagoon drained dry. You have worked up a raging appetite flapping your way over New York grain fields, Pennsylvania coal fields, Virginia tobacco fields and Southern cotton fields. You sight the palm-tufted everglades, set your wings to plane down, and what does your watering beak encounter? Minnows, frogs, juicy bulbs, slimy, succulent crawfish? No. There are pipelines, dredges, real estate signs, empty cut-plug tins, discarded overalls, splintered flasks, old shoes, sapling...
...Chamberlain cabled reply that the Foreign Office had the matter under close scrutiny. The strike, the embargo, continued. And the masters and merchants of the city by the sweet lagoon seemed to see a thumb at every Chinese nose...