Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should learn from America how to build such highways," they wrote, impressed that even minor arteries on their road map were paved...
...were all very heartened by Bobby Riggs's win over Margaret Court two weeks ago," President Derek Bok, the head jock, said last night. "We figured it was time to put Radcliffe athletics on the map by giving them a shot...
North Sea oil is low in sulfur content, and thus relatively nonpolluting. More important, it lies on Western Europe's doorstep; British Petroleum's "Forties" field (see map) is only 115 miles off the Scottish coast. By contrast, much Persian Gulf oil must now be hauled 11,000 miles by tanker around Africa before it reaches Europe. Fuel from the North Sea promises to supply 10% to 15% of Europe's energy needs by 1980-not enough to materially reduce dependence on the Mideast, but perhaps sufficient to enable the Continent to survive a brief shutoff...
Every year at this time a huge hot air mass rises out of Princeton, N.J. It has a curious origin. It's not one of Mother Nature's little whims brought on by margarine commercials and you'll never see it on any weather map. This annual phenomenon originates in the delusions of Princeton's lightweight oarsmen, a group of pseudo-masochists who secretly harbor the belief that someday they will beat Harvard in lightweight crew...
Rosovsky's close personal interest in Japan is a result of 20 years of scholarship, five of which were spent in residence in Asia. In his office, he displays an eighteenth-century map of Japan and an 1860 drawing of the aal-time great Sumo wrestlers...