Word: mason
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maya Curse (Field Museum of Chicago). In southwest Mexico, 35 miles south by southeast of Valladolid and at the western border of Quintana Roo, the Mason-Blodgett expedition sent by the Field Museum of Chicago came upon a highway built by ancient Mayans 40 feet wide and raised ten feet from the ground...
...feet high. At its top Mayan priests had the habit of tearing the hearts from living human sacrifices, of offering the warm and bloody things to an idol, and of heaving the maimed bodies into a ravine close by. There seemed a fell malison on this spot which the Mason-Blodgett troupe had found. Their muleteers ran fearfully away, carrying with them the supplies. Gregory Mason, scribe, fell from the top of the pyramid and hurt himself; he fell through the roof of a buried building and hurt himself more; the tree which held his hammock also fell, almost...
...will read this morning accounts of tennis matches and baseball games cancelled on account of rain, of lacrosse contests played in mud and drizzle, and of snow welcoming the Crimson cohorts to Virginia. A cool, and even somewhat damp, vacation was enjoyed by all of those north of the Mason-Dixon line, and it is not unpleasant to the less charitable to know that their more favored brethren fared little better...
Editor Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of the Grand Rapids Herald, 44-year-old Republican, Mason, Shriner, Elk, Woodman, was appointed Senator from Michigan last week to succeed Woodbridge N. Ferris, 75-year-old Democrat who died of pneumonia last fortnight. Mr. Vandenberg made the fifth journalist in the Upper House. Fellow Republican publishers to whom he can look from behind his horn-rimmed glasses for encouragement in his maiden speech are Cutting of New Mexico, Capper of Kansas, La Follette of Wisconsin. Senator-publisher Carter Glass of Virginia sits across the aisle among the Democrats...
...Corey '29, F. E. Cummings '30, W. M. Dow '29, G. H. Elsass '30, Leslie Flaksman '29, A. E. French '29, R. G. Gould '30, David Guarnaccia '29, V. L. Hennessy '30, W. S. Heinrich '30, D. A. Lomasney '28, R. G. Luttman '29, T. F. Mason '30, T. G. Moore '29, F. V. Nissen '30, R. H. O'Connell '30, Captain A. H. O'Neil '28, W. C. Peet '28, R. P. Porter '29, C. A. Pratt '28, J. L. Reid '29, G. A. Tupper '29, and J. O. Wildes...