Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Map in hand, almost anyone ought to be able to find his way around Harvard Square. Cambridge, like Boston, was founded on cowpaths, as the saying goes, and if cows could do it, you probably don't need a map...
This week, as U.S. strategists studied the azimuthal map of the Arctic (see cut), it looked as though Seward had been right about Greenland; and Lansing wrong. The U.S. frontier is now on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Thanks to "Seward's Folly," the fortress of North America has a castellated outpost at the northwest angle in Alaska. But at the northeast angle it has only tenuous base rights, to expire with the peace...
Soviet Mysteries. Most tantalizing blank spot on the diggers' map of the world is Soviet Russia. Modern man himself probably developed somewhere in Soviet Asia. Scattered thickly from the Black Sea to Manchuria are fascinating mysteries which the diggers yearn to probe. But the Soviet Government excludes outsiders; Soviet diggers, like learned squirrels, hide their choicest finds from outside scrutiny...
Pacific Venice. When the U.S. took the mid-Pacific island of Ponape from the Japanese, it fell heir to an unsolved mystery. On a reef off the east coast of the dot-on-the-map island are a great stone fortress and 50 artificial islets. Ponape natives call it Nanmatol, but they shun it superstitiously and have only the flimsiest traditions to explain why people built...
London is what Norman Collins' book is really about. Percy and his blonde are simply two of the dozen-odd principal characters used by Author Collins as a means of mapping London-south from Camden Town, north from Wapping. Absent from his map is the London that is most familiar to most tourists-the picture-postcard world in the shadow of Big Ben. Omnipresent are the vast areas few tourists ever see, and ways of life that few would associate with England...