Word: sylvanus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, 65, archeologist, top-rank authority on the ancient Maya civilization; of coronary thrombosis; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Long associated with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he spent some 40 years directing excavations in Yucatan and Guatemala, headed the 1932 expedition which explored the city of Calakmul, one of the big finds of Maya archeology...
...only potential enemy in sight, a practice not considered good manners at the start of the year. Only a few of 1946's substantial histories were wholly above the battle, among them Joseph Dorfman's two-volume The Economic Mind in American Civilization (1606-1865); Sylvanus G. Morley's The Ancient Maya. In a class by itself was Yale Professor F. S. C. Northrop's The Meeting of East and West, a study of international cultures...
...ANCIENT MAYA (520 pp.) - Sylvanus G. Morley-Sfanford University Press...
...Sylvanus G. Morley of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, who has worked in the Maya country for 40 years, is the man who discovered some of its most famous monuments and directed Carnegie's elaborate restorations in Yucatan. Even he cannot unravel all the tangles of the Maya past, but this patient, expert, profusely illustrated book is by far the best general survey of the mystery as a whole: who were the ancient Maya, how did their civilization arise, why did it fall...
...into shape by the same basic regimen that West Point has followed for more than a century. This process for molding military youth was set up by one of the neglected great men of U.S. education, a graduate of West Point as well as of Dartmouth. His name was Sylvanus Thayer...