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Word: mapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Posters, and unanswered Social Service invitations as connected in some way with that little black notebook that we used when we had to sing Fair Harvard for the first time. That was a mighty handy little book, and it didn't cost anything either. We remember it had a map of Cambridge in it which proved a big help when we tried to find out where Quincy Street was after reading a little notice on the front page of one of the Saturday Crimsons. (Of course, we lost our nerve Sunday afternoon, but then we have known ever since where...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. H. ACTIVITIES REPORTED BY CHEEK | 1/29/1927 | See Source »

...forces rushed to Nicaragua bv the Navy Department brought the number of U. S. warcraft in Nicaraguan waters up to 15, and the number of officers and men available up to 4,680?enough to wipe Nicaragua off the map without more than affording much needed practice to professional U. S. sailors and marines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Thin Red Squad | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...competition was a problem in landscape design. The competitors were furnished with a topographic map representing an amusement park on a waterfront, and were asked to design all the features, concessions, amusement devices, and other arrangements calculated for the pleasure and convenience of patrous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 1/13/1927 | See Source »

...were lost once for five weeks," said Dr. McGovern in reply to a question. "The South American has too much imagination. Not satisfied to leave blank the unexplored part of his continent, he fills the map with detail. When one reached a point where the map shows a river, but there is none, it causes uncomfortable confusion. We had to live on monkey meat and caterpillars, great fuzzy ones. I never thought they would be so tough, but these took a lot of chewing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FORBIDDEN CITY" VISITOR TO SPEAK | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...Lake George, N.Y., a speck that had crawled swiftly over the map from Long Island descended upon the lake ice, which crackled, boomed, broke through. Natives pushed out in a rowboat, rescued the half-sunken plane's three people, who registered at a hotel as A. L. & Mrs. Caperton, and Pilot J. P. Herman, of Garden City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Specks | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

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