Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ARCTIC VILLAGE-Robert Marshall- Smith & Haas ($3). When young Plant Physiologist Robert Marshall decided to spend a summer in Alaska he looked at the map. found there were two large uncharted sections. He chose the Upper Koyukuk because it was farther north, inside the Arctic Circle. He liked it so much that a year later he went back there to spend over a year. Arctic Village, May choice of the Literary Guild, is the fascinatingly factual record of his visit. Like Robert Lynd's famed Middletown (statistical study of Muncie. Ind.). Arctic Village's data cover every phase...
...Diego naval air station. One of his four daughters married a naval man. New commander of the U. S. Fleet will be Vice Admiral David Foote Sellers of Texas, who was President Theodore Roosevelt's naval aide, has fought and won medals all over the map. He will succeed Admiral Richard Henry Leigh, who becomes a member of the General Board. Rear Admiral Frank Brooks Upham is to be commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet, replacing Admiral Montgomery Meigs Taylor. Rear Admiral Frank Hardeman Brumby, commander of battleship division No. 1 of the Battle Force, succeeds Vice Admiral...
...bumped over the Pyrenees, skimmed the Mediterranean. North Africa looked much like southern France. Then the Sahara began. Crossing the Sahara nowadays is a comparatively safe matter. The French run passenger buses over a fairly well-defined trail. But the two principal way-stations are not marked on any map. Bordj Estienne, an elaborate mud fort near the oasis of Reggan, boasts (and not idly) an American bar, French table d"hÓte, illustrated French and English magazines less than ten days old, bedrooms with electric light. Bidon 5 is a gasoline pump, "a white-enamelled pillar identical with...
...students of Geography 36, the new course in serial photography which was started this half year. The course has been under the supervision of four army officers who have piloted the photographic flights and given instruction in taking, developing, printing, and using the pictures and in map work. Each student is taken on three flights of three hours each in groups of five...
Back to Purnea, the Moth brought consistently discouraging news to the Houston-Mt. Everest Expedition. Flying conditions were bad. One day low hanging clouds obscured most of the surrounding terrain, an important drawback because the expedition's scientific aim was to map aerially 250 sq. mi. surrounding the peak. Another day a great white snow plume whirled menacingly about Everest's cone. The flyers were waiting for a wind velocity not to exceed 40 m.p.h. They fell impatiently to tinkering with their ships and equipment, already at taut perfection. They had been at Purnea nine days, but precious...