Word: raiszed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Geography was ever desperately needed, it is needed now," Erwin Raisz, lecturer on Geographical Exploration, declared over the weekend in the first phase of a student-faculty counter-attack on the University's recent abolition of Geography as a field of concentration...
...letter of protest to President Conant earlier this month, Raisz, the senior active member of the Institute of Geographical Exploration, stated that "the demand for good geographers and cartographers continues strong. Harvard cannot progress without geography any better than it could without history...
Citing the case of a "high-ranking member of the State Department who did not know where Manchuria was," Raisz' letter claimed that "the Palestine and the Korean problem would never have occured if they had been handled by persons with an adequate knowledge of geography...
Operation Field Trip, unit, Geography 35a, Professor Erwin Raisz Commanding, made a navigational fix to the faultless second last week for the rendezvous point of the motor transport deep in the wilds of Winchester. Officer and men were to establish contact from different directions. The course being Mapmaking, they couldn't miss...
...someone had blundered. Theirs not to reason why, the students deployed themselves as per instructions to the designated hill. But the sad story of too little and too late was told all over again: map-master Raisz had misread...