Word: roo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lindberghs Over Yucatan. Soaring over Campeche, Yucatan, Quintana Roo (Mexico), British Honduras, and Guatemala, Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh and a Fairchild camera last week observed the remains of three Mayan cities and traces of a fourth. Dr. Alfred Vincent Kidder of the Carnegie Institution, who accompanied them, declared gratefully that they had accomplished more exploratory work in 25 hours of flying than a ground party could have done in five years of plodding...
...Washington, who directs excavations in Mexico and the Southwest, had asked Col. Lindbergh to make the pictures at Pecos near Santa Fe. The request followed the flyer's telling the doctor with awe of a Mayan temple city he had accidentally seen last February while flying over Quintana Roo, jungle- covered Mexican territory. Two green eyes had seemed staring up at him from among the trees. He flew lower. The eyes became pools before a pyramid temple. Tumbled around were the ruins of a city approximately eight miles in diameter. Flyer Lindbergh wanted to return there with aerial cameras...
Maya Curse (Field Museum of Chicago). In southwest Mexico, 35 miles south by southeast of Valladolid and at the western border of Quintana Roo, the Mason-Blodgett expedition sent by the Field Museum of Chicago came upon a highway built by ancient Mayans 40 feet wide and raised ten feet from the ground...
...shine in today's encounter. Thirty-five men have been picked to make the trip to Andover. The line-up follows: FRESHMAN ANDOVER Fuller l.e. r.e. Lyons Barrett l.t. r.t. Kingston (Capt) Petrasch l.g. r.g. Stewart McClellan c. c. Gould Ticknor r.g. l.g. Davis Waterman r.t. l.t. Meiker, Roo Lewis r.e. l.t. Avery Wetmore q.b. q.b. Gary, Crandale Holbrook l.h.b. r.h.b. Douglass Devens f.b., f.b. Frigard Mason r.h.b. l.h.b. Wheeler, Luce
...modern Indians, who resented our entering this place more than anything we did. This interesting fact came out during a cross-examination to which we were subject near the end of our trip by General Francisco May military commander of all the Indians of the territory of Quintana Roo...