Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Jules Guerin, 79, whose outsize handiwork decorates many a U.S. public wall (the map murals in Manhattan's Penn Station, the allegorical murals on the north & south walls of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington); after brief illness; in Neptune...
...Histrionically, the battle is a draw. Typical O'Brien low-blow: "Why does your nose run when your feet get wet? Your feet don't run when your nose gets wet." Typical Beery haymaker: bulging the screen full of a face as massively seamed as a relief map. There is also an Indian raid, during which Miss O'Brien routs a brave with a peashooter. Because enough people enjoy that one, Bad Bascomb is already on the lists of box-office bests...
Other skirmishes loomed around workers in the South's leading cotton mills. Van Bittner, bulky chief of C.I.O. organizers, summoned a council of war next week at Columbia, S.C. to map regional strategy. "The cotton textile industry offers the widest field," said Bittner, naming North Carolina's Cannon towel mills and Georgia's Bibb Manufacturing Co. as redoubts to be taken...
...scientific fact that the world's map was very different in the geological past. Land bridges connected Alaska with Siberia, Europe with Africa. The oceans contained land areas that no longer exist. But such "lost continents" disappeared millions of years...
...When we feel that the times in which we live are difficult and uncertain, a good remedy is . . . to take out a map of the world 'and look at the United States and the British Commonwealth and Empire; to measure what they add up to in population, in natural resources and in industrial power; and, above all, to think what will be the effect if this massive weight is placed solidly behind...