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Word: looke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...look at the grotesque faces decorating the four corners of Muyil's highest temple would alone incline the archaeologist to the opinion that Muyil is not a First Empire city. Such faces or "mask panels" are common in Maya architecture; but in the southern and older area the details of the face are generally built up of stucoo, whereas in the northern and later area they are in relief. These faces at Muyil are in relief that is, cut into the walls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spinden and Mason, Investigating Mayan Temples, Solve Riddle of Lost Civilization | 5/18/1926 | See Source »

...Admiral Nicholas Horthy is Regent for this "kingless kingdom." Almost certainly a majority of the multi-national citizens of what is now Hungary look up to the House of Habsburg as the one authority under which they have ever been peaceably united. France and her allies have stood guard sleeplessly since the War, lest "the heir apparent," Prince Otto of Habsburg (still a child and residing in Spain with his mother, the former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary), be "restored," or the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg seize the throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Madcap Trial | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

America's college distance runners gradually are approaching pre-war standards and I look for a wonderfully balanced field in the fiftieth annual I. C. A. A. A. A. two-mile event at Harvard Stadium May 29. This distance event was added to the championship program in 1899, consequently this year's race will be the twenty-seventh on record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COACH OF CORNELL AND OLYMPIC TRACKMEN REVIEWS THE RECORDS OF DISTANCE STARS | 5/12/1926 | See Source »

...pick and choose all the monuments to be erected by Americans on French battlefields. It wishes to keep down the number of monuments, lest the U.S., which can expensively honor her dead, erect so much granite and marble and bronze on the battlefields of France that it will look to future generations as if it were France that lost 120,000 men in the War, and America that sacrificed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Honor from Congress | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

...dreamy look clouded the eyes of the old woman. "In Milan, Italy," she said, "the gypsy women are as slender as boys; their bracelets jingle as they lean over the wells at twilight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Queen | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

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