Word: lima
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...despot was to be seized while on his way to the National Theatre in Lima by a determined gang of radicals. Once in their power, the President was to have been forced to abdicate...
Died. Marshal Andres Avelino Caceres, 87, twice President of Peru (1886, 1894), only Marshal in the Peruvian Army, at Lima...
...Canadian border and showed off in Montreal. Thence he journeyed to ponder the tossing waters of Niagara; thence to Cleveland about automobiles, his business side line; thence to New York again, to shut his desk and embark with friends for a pugilistic grand tour of South America, commencing at Lima, Peru...
...Inca tomb near Cajamarca, Peru, Francisco Loaysa, of Lima, found an elaborate " quipu," or knotted and decorated cord 16 yards long, used by the Incas as a calculating device for their decimal arithmetic system...
...operators realize in advance the great difference in safety of operations in regions where the productive strata consist of limestone, as in the Lima-Indiana and Mexican fields, from those that are true sandstones or sands, as in Pennsylvania, Kansas and northern Louisiana. While such is not always the case, limestone wells generally decline far more rapidly than sandstone wells. For instance, in the celebrated Ranger fields of north-central Texas, which were advertised in such glowing terms three years ago, very few of the large companies have made money, but enormous sums have beeen lost even by so-called...