Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month. Last week he made up his mind to go. Plans called for one major speech, at Bonneville Dam, rear platform talks along the way. After his five busy days in Washington the President at week's end went back to Hyde Park to rest and map his itinerary. First public appearance scheduled was Cheyenne, Wyo., home of Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Tentative program thereafter included a week-end at Yellowstone Park, a stop at Boise, Idaho, a visit to his son-in-law, Publisher John Boettiger of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer...
...India and China repelled from all but a few footholds. Most of Africa is virtually uninhabitable by whites. "Whilst the white man keeps on thinking that his civilization is slowly conquering peoples and countries for him, and actually, even quite recently, new blobs of color on the political map do signify that new colonial empires are being founded in Africa, the real truth is that the chain of the colored world has for the past hundred years been visibly closing...
...Among the 16 odd airports serving Greater New York, none can qualify with the Air Commerce Bureau's classification as super terminals (4,000 ft. runways in four directions plus two miles of clear approaches). But the metropolis has many places where a pilot can sit down (see map...
Last week the Nicaraguan Government put out a postage stamp depicting "the official map of Nicaragua." Honduras promptly demanded the stamp's suppression. Nicaragua refused and the rumpus began. Many Nicaraguan residents of Honduras were returned home by their legation in Tegucigalpa; orators of both countries broadcast bitter speeches; Honduran students, learning that Nicaraguan firebrands were urging war, declared themselves ready to fight back, thundered in a manifesto that "to die for the Fatherland is to open the doors of immortality...
...their founder George Fox (1624-91), that no one could know Christ without "quaking and trembling." So, although they called themselves Friends the irreverent called them Quakers. Today there are 160,000 members of the Society of Friends. Their organized groups, called "meetings," are spotted irrelevantly over the map of the world. Largest is the London Yearly Meeting, with 20,000 members. Next in size is the Five Year Meeting of Indiana, located near Richmond, Ind. with 16,000 members who differ from most Quakers in having formal services with paid pastors. The combined Race Street and Arch Street Meetings...