Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard, like Boston, was founded on towpaths and since the average Harvard-man's mentality has little in common with a cow, he may have some difficulty in finding his bearings. But map in hand, and with a few pointers in his head, the newcomer will, in the space of a couple of months, have memorized the ins and guts of his surroundings fairly well...
Committeemen who made the study had reported that in 1939 profit-sharing companies formed "islands of 'peace, equity, efficiency and contentment,' and likewise prosperity, dotting an otherwise turbulent industrial map, all the way across the continent." To Mrs. Luce, these words still sounded more promising than anything yet said...
G.V.P. proposes to correct the situation by raising the level of the upper reaches of the north-flowing Pechora and Vychegda Rivers (see map). Here in the flatlands, an imperceptible earth curve is all that determines whether rivers flow south to the grainfields or north to the Arctic. G.V.P. wants them to flow south. The Kuibyshev dam has already been started. All the rest of G.V.P. is still just a bright gleam in the Soviet...
...Moslem League's shrewd, elegant President Mohamed AH Jinnah put it coolly: "India has never been a nation. It only looks that way on a map. ... I want to eat the cow the Hindu worships. When the Hindu shakes hands with me, he must go wash his hands. Our religion is not all. Culture, history, customs, all make Moslem India a different nation from Hindu India. The Moslem has nothing in common with the Hindu except his slavery to the British...
...these affairs. It seats itself in rows of wooden chairs, and smokes for a few minutes while the incongruous little iron stove fights a losing battle against the chill from outside. Presently General Wedemeyer comes in and sits at a desk, like a schoolmaster. Behind him is a big map of China. At his left stands an interpreter...