Word: mapped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which fell upon the drought-parched North Central States. A 3-in. precipitation was estimated by college agronomists to be worth $50,000,000 to desperate farmers. General Midwestern rains prevented utter agricultural disaster but came weeks too late to do any lasting good. On his red-splotched drought map. Relief Administrator Hopkins blocked in 46 more stricken counties in Minnesota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada. Texas. ''The drought area," said he, "no doubt will spread, even though there is more rain...
...Boston's First National Bank. Many of the old executives who went to Chase with its purchase of Harris, Forbes in 1930 have already departed to form their own firm. Dissolution of City Co. and Guaranty Co. produced two alliances which may vastly alter the Wall Street map when the investment business recovers...
...unconscious of his engagement. After answering the telephone, Mr. Baxter dashed up stairs, pulled on some clothes, finished his dressing on the way up Plympton-Street, and arrived at New Lecture Hall to find it locked and deserted. It seems as though the History office had not delivered his map last Wednesday as it was supposed to, and that the final lectures in History 1 don't follow the regular schedule anyway, so, being still in a state of semi-consciousness, he was prepared for anything...
...Chicago's famed Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam. Like the Hoover Committee on Recent Social Trends, whose researches it found useful, the Commission began its survey in 1929. Financed by several hundred thousand Carnegie Corporation dollars and aided by scores of investigators, its announced purpose was to map the present and chart the future of social studies (history, political science, economics, sociology) in U. S. schools. That meant deciding the kind of society for which students should be prepared...
...than three millennia before Christ were the Sumerians, whose high civilization glimmered before history's dawn. Exploration was a by-product of trade and conquest for the Assyrians, the Minoans of Crete, the Phoenicians, the Greeks. Anaximander of Miletus (Sixth Century B. C.) drew up the earliest known map of the world, which he regarded as a cross-section of a great cylinder hanging from the heavens. A generation later Hecataeus wrote Periodos, the first known book of geography. Exploration as a science seems to have been set on foot in the Fifth Century by Herodotus, "Father of History...