Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plainly pleased. Dictator Kemal plied British Ambassador Sir George R. Clerk with champagne, toasted George V, traced with his long thumbnail on a map the places where Turks slaughtered 34,000 soldiers of the King...
When the weather map showed winds from the south, pilots of the six balloons about to cast off from Omaha in the annual National Balloon Race scurried about for firearms, fishing tackle, emergency rations. Prizes of the race were the Litchfield Trophy and third place on the U. S. team for the international races next September.† With south winds, to win might mean sailing far into the Canadian wilds...
...existence of France's chain of subterranean forts is well known to military authorities of all nations, but to convince British husbands or uncles, let them read a long descriptive article (with map) on the subject by Editor-in-Chief Stephane Lauzanne of the semi-official Paris Matin, published by the New York Times April 12, 1931.-ED. First Class Postage Sirs...
...throughout the schools of the State, Los Angeles is mentioned as follows: In International Geography compiled by 70 authors, the city is mentioned once as "Los Angelos." In Little Journeys Through California is a Los Angeles street scene of 1907. Modern Business Geography,published in 1930, has a shipping map showing one line going out of Los Angeles harbor.* World Geography, published in 1927, gives the city's population as 577,000 (it is 1,238,048), calls the harbor poor and the surrounding land a desert...
Only the week prior President Trippe had struck another railroad legend from his map of the world's biggest air transport system. Planes had begun to drone in regular service from Vera Cruz, low on the Gulf of Mexico, up to Mexico City, following the old route of Conquistador Cortes, of General Winneld Scott and his U. S. Army...