Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that I do not speak but once in a while. Sometimes when at Senate ladies' luncheons I do not say a word. I want to say a word to you. Some of the ladies who are sitting with me have indicated that South Dakota has just come on the map this summer. It has always been on the map...
...naturally had their focus at Ottawa-that now great and flourishing metropolis the site of which Queen Victoria chose as the Capital of Canada by a most quaint expedient (1858). Her Majesty closed her eyes, gestured with her right hand and brought her extended right forefinger down on a map of Canada. Then, opening har eyes, she remarked: "It is our will that here shall be the Capital of our Dominion of Canada...
What newly matriculated student, as yet ignorant of both Harvard and Cambridge has not pondered heavily over the involutions of the map which graces the booklet, wondering if streets called straight have any place geographically in the maze which surrounds Harvard Square? Who has not opened to the rules and regulations of the University to find that the first is that all football games except that with Yale are played in the Stadium? What eye has not rapidly scanned the list of Important Dates in the college year, starting with that of registration and blithely swooping over the months...
...Letter of Welcome. Map of Medical School Environs: Those together with the Room Registry and Expense Pamphlet were mailed to each matriculating student...
...time of Rome's burning, in humble age, saying: "I am only an old man, to whom one day a thing of wonder happened, and who has gone over the world seeking people to tell it to. . . ." The Book of Acts is as full of names as a map is full of cities and out of ten scores of names Bonn Byrne makes vivid people- deep-chested Barnabas; Caiaphas, the blue-horned high priest; chaste Thekla, the Greek maiden who followed Saul in boy's dress; easy Peter, shaggy John Baptist, gentle-fingered Luke. ... It is a book...