Word: older
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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...
...second team also hopes to come out on the long end of the score, since Andover was defeated by the Freshmen last week. The 5 to 4 score of the match, however, shows that the First court men are likely to give their older rivals a close contest...
Near Visby, "city of roses and ruins" on Sweden's island, Gotland, in the Baltic Sea, Professor Nils Lithberg came upon the ruins of a city at least 1,500 years old, which gave promise of yielding relics far older, relics of the Bronze and early Iron Ages. Excavations in Visby have turned up dwelling sites 4,000 years...
...While soliciting advertisements," he said, "I came into contact with some older men who have become fast friends in many instances acquaintanceships formed in this way have proved of great benefit and value throughout my life...
...tales of vice. These form their gossip, their excitement, their cultural horizon. It is the pictorial papers that have recently thrown this class into relief and emphasized its importance. Three pictorials have thriven in the city of New York with a scarcely perceptible intrusion into the circulation of the older dailies. They serve a new public whose introduction to print is the result of the attraction of pictures...