Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have noticed that on the African map in TIME, April 27, the Belgian Congo is not mentioned among the Allied Nations...
Throughout the United Nations, suspense mounted. All winter long, retreating here & there, Hitler and his troops had endured, had waited, had piled up strength for the decisive battle. Now spring spread northward in ever-widening circles (see map). The zero hour was hard by. Hitler had feinted with one of the "peace offensives" which are always his last step before war of nerves turns to war of gunpowder...
...Washington office, John Lewis sat enthroned before a map of the world, his shoulders blotting out whole oceans. Of the Western Hemisphere, only Alaska was visible over his white-streaked haystack of hair. He had assumed a new role: military strategist. If only, he muttered wistfully, "it were in my power to command...
...area that the R.A.F. could bomb spread vast across the face of Europe (see map). Because it was so big the pattern of bombing could be infinitely varied...
...need for physicists in all war work is growing at a rate of between 1,500 and 2,000 a year, yet the schools are not turning out more than 500," says Director Henry Askew Barton of the American Institute of Physics. "The last war put chemistry on the map. This is a war of physics...