Word: maps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Railway lines have been extended so that it will soon be possible to travel with practically no interruption from the northern border of the United States to the southern border of El Salvador, and in South America from Peru to Patagonia. . . . On the wall of my office hangs a map showing proposed highways connecting the principal points of our two Continents...
...amuse his stepson further, Stevenson drew a map of an island, with hidden treasure, which later led to the writing of "Treasure Island." A reproduction of this map is given as the frontispiece of the first edition...
Cuba. Independent of Spain since 1898, and of the U. S. since 1901. A republic. But the U. S. retains rights of intervention and maintains a naval base at Guantanamo Bay (see MAP). Population 75% white. A 700-mile highway, bisecting Cuba, is now building by 5,000 men. Havana a superb metropolis: palaces, plazas, colonnades, tropical parks. Cigars exported annually 90,000,000. Best Corona Coronas come from the region of Vuelta Abajo in western Cuba...
...Look closer, and one finds the curtain to be practically an airplane map of Cambridge. There is Massachusetts Hall, there a quadrangle in the Georgian style. The campus of Tait is cloistered. There are ivy-covered towers, containing, by the way, college bells of familiar penetration. It were piddling to find fault because Agassiz Hall has alighted cheek-by-jowl with Holworthy, with no thought of what havoc such change would raise in the architectural scheme of Brattle Stret...
...least it might be sad to those who were inclined to take such things as statistics and reputation seriously to heart. The Rev. Charles Francis Potter, speaking at a meeting in New York, having recently made a survey of the "high and low spots on the American cultural map," apparently taking as his standard the per capita appropriation for library maintenance, disclosed the fact that Cleveland has within the last five years passed Boston as the cultural center of the country...