Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foremost authorities on Maya history, including Dr. S. G. Morley of the Carnegle Institute. Dr. Spinden of Harvard, and the British archaeologists Maudslay and Joyce, are agreed that Maya culture suffered eclipse before the coming of the Spaniards. There was an early collapse in the seventh century A. D., and a later one in the fifteenth century. The most likely causes of these collapses are civil war, exhaustion of the soil, climatic change and the appearance of disease...
...area of the Russian Empire was over 19 million square versts (8 million English square miles) or one-seventh of the land surface of the globe. The area of the U. S. S. R. is considerable over 17 million square versts...
Last week the New Society of Artists opened its seventh exhibition in Manhattan. The place of honor was given to George W. Bellows' unfamiliar War-piece, "The Massacre"-civilian figures huddled in a blur of terror before a firing squad. Stirling Calder, friend of Bellows, exhibited a half-length portrait of the painter in bronze...
...orthodox nun" who claims to have ministered to the Imperial family up to the last moment. She is said to possess a letter in the autograph of the Tsar written to several would-be rescuers at Ekaterinburg: "The cherished moment has arrived; you will be able to act. The seventh and eighth windows from the main entrance are now always open. Our guards consist of 13 men armed with revolvers and bombs. All the keys are with the Commandant, who treats us well enough. If you can aid us to escape through the window, please inform us. If we must...
...satisfied with the powers of a dictator in Italy, he has extended the tentacles of Fascismo into other countries. His dictum that 'once an Italian always an Italian to the seventh generation,' prohibits Italian immigrants to the United States becoming naturalized. They must remain Italian citizens to Fascismo. If they enter any organization having for its purpose opposition to Fascismo their property in Italy will be confiscated...