Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have stopped again, 20 or 30 miles to McLeansboro and Carmi, crossed the Wabash River into Indiana, promptly demolishing Griffin and razing half of Princeton. Apparently this was done by one tornado or a recurrent one, because the path of the storm is a mathematically straight line on the map. Subsidiary storms invaded Tennessee and Kentucky, not without death and destruction...
...ruined city of Kara Khoto in the Gains desert was one of the expedition's objectives. The city, uninhabited now for some 400 years, is mentioned by Marco Polo as Edzina. The Fogg expedition made a map of the city and succeeded in bringing back from there some small frescos, a fine mirror of the Tang period, and several interesting fragments of broken pottery...
...behind that she was able to escape. By virtue of an active mind and a good memory, she was able to recover her jewelry, valued at $50,000, which she had buried in the ground immediately after the train had jumped the rails. Subsequently she drew a map showing the place where the treasure lay hid. "Boy No. 1" of the Standard Oil Co. was despatched to the scene (TIME, June 11, 1923), later returned with what narrowly escaped becoming bandit duty...
...before made public, is printed at the bottom of this page. With two exceptions the buildings shown in black are now in use; and those shaded are proposed for construction in the near future. The Holden Twins and the new Bursar's office, shown in the center of the map are already under construction, whereas the new chemical laboratory on the site of Boylston Hall and the Memorial in the center of the Yard are still on paper, although depicted as already built...
...Quietly, at the State Department, Secretary Hughes signed an agreement with Dr. De Graeff, Minister from the Netherlands, agreeing to arbitrate a controversy with Holland over the possession of the Isle of Talmas, a map-fleck near the Philippines...