Word: maps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actually did receive a secret assurance that Soviet Russia has renounced her claims to Bessarabia, that was the biggest news in Europe last week. Secrecy may well have been necessary, in order to give the Soviet Government time in which to break gently to Soviet citizens, school children and map makers the news that Bessarabia has been in Rumania for the last eleven years...
...Versailles of Venezuela" Sirs: Fancy how hurt we Maracayans were to see your map of South America in the Dec. 24 issue with never a mention of Maracay. You say "Caracas, city of perpetual spring and home of General Gomez." All wrong! Gomez, le Grand, never sets foot in Caracas, he lives, breathes and transacts all business right here in Maracay- the Versailles of Venezuela. And what's more. at least 60 of his 84 acknowledged children live in and round the town. He is the original bachelor father, as you may or may not know. AND the Reigning...
...appearance of the Business School on the south bank of the river has been followed by the purchase by the University of all land between the Learz Anderson and the Western Avenue bridges not already occupied by College buildings. This tract of undeveloped property is a map of what Harvard will be. Those responsible for the new chapel should consider carefully before succumbing to a tradition which thinks of Harvard only in terms of the Harvard Yard without regard to larger appropriateness...
Across the Great Smoky Mountains lies Chattanooga, "Dynamo of Dixie," below and beyond which (an inch off the map) is Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River in Alabama, where stand the 612,000 h.p. Federal power plants...
...come, as from most of the retired military, in lectures and speeches which their author is persuaded to make before patriotic meetings or conventions. One came last week, in a Bullard speech at a luncheon of the Hardware, Metals and Allied Trades in Manhattan. With the aid of a map, Major-General Bullard showed quickly how the U. S. might be captured by an invader once New York had fallen, as it must fall if potent defenses are not maintained. Knowing that an oldtime war-dog's growling is often interpreted as senile jingoism, and to give his hardware...