Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since February archeologists had been delving into a 30-foot mound in the mountains of Guatemala. This week they announced their prize discovery: "The finest single piece of Mayan jade carving ever found...
...graves were in a mound, one of two dozen on the outskirts of Nebaj, at the end of a winding new road, ten hours from Guatemala City. The local Indians, descendants of the ancient Mayans whose bones rested below, make daily sacrifices of flowers and incense before the mounds, while praying to their curious pantheon: to rain and wind gods of their old faith, and to Dios and Maria of the Catholicism they have since embraced...
...major-league baseball teams passed the season's one-third mark last week, the leading pitcher was neither Bob Feller, Hal Newhouser, Harry Brecheen nor Ewell Blackwell, nor any of the other established celebrities of the mound. On the figures, the best pitcher was a hooknosed, six-foot left-hander named Warren Spahn; habitat Braves Field, Gaffney Street, Boston...
Jack Wallace and Brendon Reilly, the Varsity's one-two pitching punch, will probably share mound duties this weekend, with lra Godin, the Crimson's Hugh Casey, held for relief duties...
With the bases filled and his week-old defeat at the hands of the Tiger nine still fresh in his memory, Brendon Reilly trotted onto the Soldiers Field mound in the seventh inning of Saturday's diamond contest, hurled three straight strikes to Nassauman Ned Zundel, and saved Jack Wallace's four to two triumph...