Word: maps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspaper correspondent, writing from Wazzan behind the French lines, thus began his daily despatch on the Moroccan War (TIME, May 11, et seq.) : "One requires no map in order to follow operations in this important sector. One can install oneself comfortably-except for the flies, whose buzzing might be taken for Abd-el-Krim's air service -on a shady cafe terrace and drink cool beer while a friendly French officer explains the situation with a magnificent panorama of mountains stretched out before one for orientation...
...Holiness Pope Pius XI last week unveiled "the largest map of the world " Oil paint upon 2,750 sq. ft. of canvas in the pavilion of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith reveals the breadth of missionary zeal...
...Washington, D. C, the tales of Captain A. W, Stevens, air-map maker (TIME,.May 11) for the Brazilian exploration (12 white men, 100 Indians) of Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, continued last week...
...horizon until West has merged with East and the vast wildernesses of the world have been travelled and chartered to man's satisfaction. The driving, nervous days of discovery are over--almost, but not quite, for the old spirit of exploration will not die until the last map is fully marked and the last continent travelled...
Beyond the polar seas, beyond the flows of ice and snow, lies a blind spot on the map, a never-never land to the explorers of the past. Peary, Scott and Stefanson have gone on to a greater discovery and the land of the Northern mysteries is still left untouched to challenge such men as Amundson, McMillan, and Olgarssor to add the last chapter to the history of continental discovery...