Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...complicate our foreign relations: Nation, XXXIX, 496. - (x) England and Clayton - Bulwer Treaty. - (y) Other commercial powers interested. - (3) Would lead to acquisition of foreign territory - which is undesirable: Nation, XXXIX, 538. - (x) U. S. has enough to do with present territory. - (y) Absorption of Central America and possibly Mexico. - (1) Instability of governments and turbulence of people...
...same emotions that they felt in life. There was an idea of reward and retribution, but in most cases it considered only the attainment of that first of savage virtues, namely, courage, though sometimes obedience to the will of the gods was thought to meet with a recompense. In Mexico there was a highly organized system which provided three separate destinies according to the way in which death was caused...
...through the kindness of Professor Sharples. Among the principal ones are starch, British gum, American gum, closely resembling gum arabic, certain sugars and caramels, corn oil, gluten meal, and the various cattle feeds. Near this are ears of corn illustrating the more important varieties of maize, from that of Mexico, in which each kernel is covered with a separate husk, to the very minute ears of the smallest popcorn. As opportunity offers, the other cereals are to be illustrated in the same...
Number 13 of the "American History Leaflets" entitled "Coronado's Journey to New Mexico and the Great Plains...