Word: mesa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arizona air-explorations were told of in the December World's Work (non- fiction monthly) by one Edward Moffat Weyer Jr. The story: When the Weyer archaeological party was isolated in an Arizona canyon by floods last July, a plane droned to rest on the dangerously rough mesa above them. A figure with a bundle clambered down the canyon wall. The figure was Col. Lindbergh; the bundle, his wife. Said he: "How are you fixed for grub? ... Er ... you'll excuse me. this is Mrs, Lindbergh-it's for her." Later the Lindberghs and hosts explored cliff...
...Mesa, Ariz., on land reclaimed from the desert by Mormons, is a huge terra cotta temple. Its foundations are 12 feet thick, its walls 4 feet thick; its area 184 by 128 feet. Within is a massive baptismal font of bronze and tile, resting on the backs twelve life-size oxen made of fired clay, altars and great rooms decorated with paintings, gold and marble...
...Mesa Centrala is riddled with these tremendous gorges. The change in climate as you descend is remarkable. The mine was up on the rim in a forest of pine trees; but down below where the ore was carried by an aerial tramway, the jungle was full of parrots and monkeys...
...intangibles. Just as the maturity of her mind has led her, in character-drawing, beyond the emotions to a spiritual emphasis, soi the maturity of her senses has brought her to dwell upon qualities of air, shadow and faint fragrance in her objective scenes. When she paints a mesa, she remembers the cloud mesa above it. Two bronzed runners passing over some sand dunes remind her of "the shadows that eagles cast in their strong, unhurried flight...
...grown up, big-boned, quiet, and self-reliant, in New Mexico. He had learned Latin from a Belgian priest, life from railroad men. He told St. Peter about a prehistoric city of the cliff-dwellers that he had discovered, perfectly preserved in the high, dry atmosphere of an inaccessible mesa. He had explored the place thoroughly and gone to Washington, where he was received with scant courtesy and less attention by the Government and the Smithsonian Institution. During his absence, St. Peter had visited the place with Tom and felt strongly how, having no strong bonds with the present...