Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Chicago for his ability to get things said without benefit of polysyllables. His address last week was understandable to anyone who knew what photons and ions are. He introduced one hybrid term of his own devising: isocosms, or lines of equal cosmic ray intensity on the world map. He showed on a chart how isocosms closely follow the lines of equal geomagnetic intensity. He left a definite impression that isocosms were not to be argued with...
Ethiopia, contrary to popular misconception, is not a Christian country. It is not even Coptic Christian. Unroll an authoritative religious map of the Empire, such as that in the current January issue of Foreign Affairs, and the facts are evident. In trifling quantity a few Christians are to be found near Addis Ababa, and the Coptic Christians, to which faith the Imperial Family appertains, form an island in the Mohammedan and pagan sea of peoples which is Ethiopia...
...Japanese planes forced the surrender of the Mongol city of Changpeh in Chahar Province, laid the groundwork for another independent State bordering the "Autonomous Government of North China" hatched last November by the Japanese Army (TIME. Dec. 2). As Japan chipped away at Generalissimo Chiang's China (see map) it became a matter of pressing importance where lay Chiang's absolute line of resistance short of the towering mountain wall of Eastern Tibet...
Szechwan's earthquake was mighty enough to rearrange the map of Szechwan. In the southern mountains, ancient home of the non-Chinese Lolo, Sifan and Miautse tribes, it opened a mile-long rent in a great mountain. The shaking mountains hurled the little Lolo citadels from their peaks into the valleys, like shot-putters at practice. They threw avalanches into the gorges of the tributary Yangtze rivers. For five hours Chiang's cherished line of last defense undulated and crumbled. It was a week before the first meager tidings trickled down the Yangtze to Nanking...
...party then started with the sledges and dog teams, crossing the mountain ranges to the Pacific Ocean, and working on the triangulation and map making...