Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jeremiah Chaplin rested on his oars and gazed with tired satisfaction over the Kennebec River valley. He had rowed 20 miles upriver. There, he decided that June day in 1818, was an ideal site for his Maine Literary and Theological Institution...
Green is the hill and the valley...
...farther south the Ancient Americans wandered, the weirder their civilization became. In northern Peru's coastal Viru Valley, diggers were last week excavating the whole series of civilizations that flourished there in the past 2,000 years...
About a month ago they found the first traces of the most primitive Viruvians, who lived in caves cut into the hard-baked soil. About the time of Christ they were replaced by (or developed into) the Chavin people. Step by step, as the centuries passed, the tight little valley's life became more complex. With the Mochica culture (500-900 A.D.), it reached a peak of sophistication. The Mochicas fertilized their fields with guano and watered them with intricate irrigation ditches, one of which was 113 kilometers (70 miles) long. They wove marvelous textiles, had a highly centralized...
...present crew of diggers are certain to find many new prizes, for Peru is an archeological treasure house. Exciting unfinished business is the neatly planned city of Chan Chan, whose massive ruins cover twelve square miles. Chan Chan, 30 miles north of the Viru Valley, was probably the greatest prehistoric metropolis in the Americas. Its culture lasted until 1400, when the Incas swept down from the High Sierras, freezing Peruvian life to such brittle rigidity that it shattered to dust when the Spaniards came...