Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tense mental exhilaration of matching nickels to see who shall pay the fares, for within the six or seven walls of the maligned Hemenway Gymnasium is a bowling alley, where he will find both physical exertion and the most delightfully fickle uncertainty. The alley resembles a relief map of the state of Nevada. The balls have little devils in them, and they skip and prance from upland to meadow, while the timid pins, across the divide, stand firm as a Central American army. At the noisy bouncing approach of the enemy, the timid pins, like a Central American army, shiver...
...Professor Fisher was commissioned to do some exploration work in the forests of Washington. The task consisted in making a trail into sparsely settled country which was supposed to have timber-land suitable for a national forest, climbing all the mountains that offered points of advantage for making rough maps of the surrounding territory, and plotting out the general topography on a township map...
...Professor Fisher made a second expedition, this time to the head waters of the south fork of the Trinity River, in northern California. On this trip, the only guide the foresters had was a township map which they had brought from headquarters in San Francisco, and which was subsequently found to be totally inaccurate and unreliable...
...MEDICAL SCHOOL LECTURE. "The Mental Life in the Light of Modern Efforts to Map the Brain." Dr. E. E. Southard. Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston...
...opportunity for another evidence of Harvard's interest in good and efficient government. Mr. E. E. Smith '02, a member of the Boston City Council, has asked for student help in the election tomorrow. He calls for forty men and he is coming to the Union this afternoon to map out their work. Those who volunteer will be excused from their College appointments tomorrow. Offering, as he does, this opportunity for an encounter with actual politics at close range, and for political service to the City of Boston, and in behalf of the wide-spread movement of good government...