Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with danger. At the Kunming field, a mud-brick Chinese village at one end of the runway snagged so many incoming planes into wreckage that ground crews finally leveled it with bulldozers. At one stage more than 700 crashes-including many bombers and tactical aircraft-were spotted on the map at Search and Rescue headquarters in Chabua. India...
...Communist aim: to control a belt of territory reaching roughly 500 miles from Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia to Soviet-occupied Manchuria (see map...
...search for the site of man's first civilized home narrowed down last week. The Iraq Government proudly claimed the oldest agricultural village in the world, recently discovered (see map). Its ruins, presumably about 8,000 years old, lay near Hassuna, about 250 miles from Baghdad. The mud-brick houses had rooms some seven feet square. Mixed in the debris were fragments of jars moulded 6,000 years before Christ. In graves lay remains of people not unlike modern...
Huey put L.S.U. on the map and underlined it in red. With 8,500 students (up from 1,600), L.S.U. became the South's second biggest university.* Then in 1939 "Jimmy the Stooge" Smith was convicted of embezzlement, sentenced to 24 years in prison. (He was pardoned this spring...
...Kent was a robust school with an enrollment of 299 students, and a handsome collection of colonial buildings beside the Housatonic River, worth some $1½ million. Boys still paid what their parents could afford (from nothing to $1,500 a year) but Kent was very much on the map of Eastern preparatory schools...