Word: maps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Josef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was born in the Ukraine, the son of Polish parents. In his boyhood, he pointed out the Congo on the map and decided that it was the place he wanted to visit...
...excursions. It is not, however, a book of travels; it is a series of enchanting essays wherein remembered places served the author as they served the artist, Turner; that is, as points of departure for his fancy. Even the anticipation of a voyage, or the reading of a map, is enough to start the author "ringing the bell" (to use his phrase) "so to speak, at the front door of heaven." While searching for the sunset on the other side oi a snowy mountain, or for beauty in Liverpool, the author captures a special brand of happiness, which, he says...
...Luther B. Wilson, famed Bishop, at once saw the point. He took out his watch, went to the table, laid it down. In the pocket of Bishop Grose ticked the timepiece of the late James W. Bashford,* Bishop of Peking, who put Methodism on the Oriental side of the map. That, too, went on the table. It was a good idea. C. E. Welch,† grape juice man, took his watch to the table. He was followed by a Vice President of the Pennsylvania R. R., A. M. Shoyer; by a lawyer, W. H. Van Benschoten; by a glovemaker...
...from St. Louis to New York. The New York World owns the American rights of the Belin system, which it has improved in private research, but has not yet used commercially. The Belin principle is quite different from the A. T. & T. process. The photo graph becomes a relief map, the elevations and depressions causing the variations in the electrical current, instead of a beam of light. The Radio Corporation of America owns the Alexanderson method (TIME, Nov. 12), very similar to the Telephone method, by which photographs have been transmitted from New York to Poland and back again...
Poland. "The legend circulated abroad that we are mobilizing our Army against Poland is untrue. We want to change the map of Europe, but this can only be achieved by the victorious march of the proletariat. We shall not throw ourselves into an armed struggle when the time is inopportune...