Word: peruvian
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...Thompson found the quipu in a basket of weaving materials included in a collection purchased ten years ago. As the Museum then boasted no expert on Peruvian archeology, the collection was stored. Lately Dr. Thompson has been combing it for exhibition items. He announced he would try to ascertain what this particular quipu was used for, began with a guess that it might have belonged to an oldtime sorcerer who employed it in horoscope-casting...
Guest of the Society of Women Geographers on her 84th birthday was slim, birdlike Annie Smith Peck, who closed her mountain-climbing career two years ago by tramping up Mount Madison. It was to signalize the most famed of Miss Peck's exploits that the Peruvian Government in 1908 named the northern peak of Mount Huascaran Cumbre Ana Peck. Miss Peck scaled Cumbre Ana Peck on the sixth attempt but her Swiss guide lost his own mittens and one of hers because "the fool, he didn't put his foot on them...
...Peruvian irregulars raped Leticia from Colombia in the first place (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933. et seq.). The real trouble has been that the Peruvian Government, while not overanxious to keep the ravished province, found the rape excessively popular in Peru and for months did not know how to let Leticia go without shame to Peru's virile Latin "honor." Only the vast tact of President Olaya Herrera of Colombia and General Vasquez Cobo whom he sent to overawe the Peruvians in Leticia, made a settlement without undue bloodshed possible. Swamp fever did most of the killing. Tall, patient President...
There appears on p. 23 of your April 9 issue of TIME magazine an article under the heading of Foreign News which sets out an interview with one Juan Leguia. As a Peruvian and as the son of Eugenio Larrabure, former vice president of Peru, serving during Augusto B. Leguia's first term, I want to take most emphatic exception to the slanderous and malicious statements which your article attributes to this person...
...fighting closely . . . but when he laid the upper portion of his body bare . . . there was such a criss-cross of old wounds and new ones that the Briton fled." But Belmonte is still alive. Prudent, he saved enough money to buy a ranch in Andalusia, with his Peruvian wife lives there now, a retired national idol...