Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disillusioned self-scrutiny has he attained any measure of success. By understanding his strengths, his weaknesses, his abilities and his stupidities he may be able to cure those desperate ills which humanity refastens upon itself in every generation. The literature of eynicism and criticism is an effort to map out the wonders of the much perplexed homo sapiens, to find some escape from the closed circuit of human degradation...
...altitude, would tax the endurance of the crew to the utmost, and extreme precautions would be necessary to prevent freezing of radiators and engines. A forced landing in the frozen wilds would mean certain death. Success would have little value. Fleeting observations of magnetic action, a rough sketch map of hastily observed and barren, ice-covered areas would be the sum total of results. "Is the game worth it?" queried close students of aeronautics...
...locality was printed, definitely, unmistakably, upon the polo map of the U. S. Besides Long Island, Rumson, N. J., Buffalo, Chicago and possibly Boston and Philadelphia, there is now Los Angeles, writ large...
...inability of the Spaniards to quell the rebels in their area of Morocco caused grave apprehension in France and Italy. The map of Northern Africa depicts four areas whose inhabitants are under the suzerainty of foreign Powers: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya. Morocco is mainly under French dominion and is a remarkable example of how low the great Shereefian Empire has fallen; for, still a monarchy, it is subjected to the French Republic and is now of little or no political importance. Algeria and Tunisia are likewise French possessions, while the greater part of Libya belongs to Italy under the name...
...floor of the lofty New York Cotton Exchange building is the Cotton Board room. On one side of the room is a large map of the U. S., on which current weather conditions are kept posted. News of storms, hot and cold spells and rainfall are immediately reported here, and marked on the map. In the "Cotton Ring," where brokers and traders are establishing the price for future cotton, the latter never long lose sight of the weather map. For just now, it is mostly a question of the weather how large the 1924 cotton crop will...