Word: mapped
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Judas on the Cross? "The objective is not, as the Crusaders believed, the repossession of what Christendom has lost, but the restoration to Moslems of the Christ they have missed ... It aims not to have the map more Christian but Christ more widely known." First task, Author Cragg argues, is to erase the monumental Moslem misunderstandings of Christianity for which the Christian church itself is partly responsible...
...ultimate instrument system, says Commander Hoover, should be completely visual. When the pilot runs into thick weather and loses sight of the ground, a screen before him will light up, showing him a map of the ground below. The moving silhouette of a small airplane will tell him his position, and a luminous curve on the map will tell him how far he can fly without running out of fuel. Another luminous screen will show him a radar view of the terrain ahead, with mountains or other obstacles. These meaning-packed pictures will be the output of a lightweight computer...
...huntsman poaching near his country shooting box. When the police close in, Jessiersky flees the country for Rome, and under the impression that he must avoid moonlight if he is to outwit his phantom enemy, dies in the labyrinth of the Catacombs with an early cartographer's unreliable map in his hands...
Councilor Al Vellucci came up with another plan to eliminate the University from the map yesterday when he told the City Planning Board to run the proposed 150-foot wide "Inner Belt Route" through Harvard Square and to stop being "prejudiced" against East Cambridge...
...Warmed by the hopeful signs, the Democrats began to work at electoral-vote arithmetic with feverish enthusiasm. Starting with the last election returns-which gave Ike 442 electoral votes to Stevenson's 89-the Democrats looked hopefully at states where Ike's margin lay within 6% (see map), figured expansively that a shift in all these was possible and would harvest 343 electoral votes-a margin for error of 77 over the needed 266. If this method conjured up doubts, there was another kind of arithmetic, based on the electoral votes of all the states that went heavily...