Word: stucco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayas were developing their civilization in Central America. In the early Christian era the Mayan culture attained the peak of its splendor. The priests invented a form of writing; the mathematicians and astronomers worked out a calendar; the architects built great cities and temples; the artisan modeled in stucco, wove textiles, carved and painted with rare skill...
...live; 2) his interests were political, hers artistic; 3) because of this incompatibility she had suffered mental cruelty. Her doctor confirmed the state of her health and her mental suffering. Eugene D. Flaherty, a family friend, told about her husband's long absences away from the McAdoo yellow stucco house, overlooking the Pacific at Santa Barbara. A private property settlement supposedly giving her real estate and $6,000 a year was approved by the court. By 4:30 p. m. the McAdoo marriage had been legally and finally dissolved and Mrs. McAdoo again became Eleanor Randolph Wilson...
...picturesque white stucco houses surrounded with jasmine and banana plants lived a prosperous population of 25,000 people. During the Spanish-American War, volunteers in blue and khaki slapPed mosquitoes, trained impatiently at Fort Taylor. During the World War, Key West again gained military prominence when a $2,500,000 submarine base was begun there. It was never commissioned, and not long after, Key West began to slip...
...front cover) The compass point of all Europe last week was a huge square brick and stucco manor house in East Prussia atop which perched pensively a knobby-kneed stork called "Oscar...
Fort Worth restaurant keepers near the city's stucco Colosseum, where boxing and wrestling matches are the usual attractions, covered their signs with new ones reading: WELCOME, BAPTISTS, NO BEER and EAT HERE, NO BEER. In session in the Colosseum last week was the 89th annual gathering of the Southern Baptist Convention, a body which, like the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, sprang from schism over slavery (in 1845) with the Northern brethren. Next to Roman Catholicism the largest single U. S. church, the Southern Baptist has 4,173,928 members. In Fort Worth representing its 24,270 churches were...