Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earth were scaled down to the size of an ordinary library globe, the height to which man has ascended from it (43,166 ft.) would about equal the coating of shellac on the sphere. The greatest depth to which he has descended would about equal the thickness of the map paper. On the water-covered portion (7/10) he would have penetrated only a fractional part of the paper...
...Kingdom of Italy, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics wields the might of the largest standing army on earth (725,000 men?U. S. Army 136,217). To grasp even a fraction of Stalin's purpose and achievements?which today are mainly economic?one must grapple with no easy map. Like stars in the firmament, like grains of caviar spread by a lavish Russian on his pancakes, are the elements of Stalin's Five-Year Plan...
...features of Commencement week this year will be the opening to visitors to Harvard of several places of historic interest as well as exhibitions of old views of Cambridge and early maps of this section, in connection with the Cambridge Tercentenary. In Robinson Annex will be shown a number of old pictures from Widener Library showing various scenes around Harvard Square. Among the most interesting of the exhibits will be the earliest known map of Cambridge...
...original map was drawn in 1635 and shows the present Harvard Yard to be a piece of marshy ground. The land along the north side of the Charles River was also a strip of marsh. The layout of the streets was much more symmetrical than it is now so that only a few of the principal streets can be recognized: Brattle Square was then called the Market Place, Mount Auburn Street was known as Long Street. Boylston Street was then Wood Street and Dunster Street was Water Street. The map which will be on exhibit is a copy...
...much as you like. Will you prefer a violent revolt? "History will pronounce the verdict that the British Government, not bearing because not understanding, goaded human nature to violence, which it could understand how to deal with." Shrewd Move. Certainly there was violence enough last week in India (see map). Riots small and great broke out in the chief commercial cities of Madras, Calcutta and Bombay. At Peshawar on the northwestern frontier, in circumstances which censorship obscured, two soldiers were burned to death in an armored car ignited by natives. But most frightful of all were atrocities at Sholapur. This...