Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting local Communist aggression-an intent made clear and plain to the Communists- would prevent such aggressions. If we foolishly allowed the Communists to be lieve that they could engage in aggression on their own timetable, in the place they choose, and with assurance they would meet only the type weapons they elect to employ, we would encourage local aggression everywhere...
...undertake special projects. The familiar map of Harvard, for instance, is his work. Last year he did a relief globe of the Earth, six feet in diameter, which he carved from plaster of Paris. It is now being commercially manufactured from rubber. His own particular interest is the "land-type" map, a colored version of the landform. The colors, however, do not represent different heights--they indicate the vegetation and cultivation of the land. This comes closest, he says, to a "true portrait of the face of Mother Earth...
Interest in geography is increasing so much that Raisz feels confident land-type maps of the entire Earth will inevitably be made, sooner or later. There are some 75 universities in the United States teaching cartography at present, and the figure is growing...
...University has decided to limit so drastically all courses dealing wtih geography. "Even Yale is building up its geography department," he notes.Knobby Sandstone, Etc. The map on the left is a small segment from Raisz's landform map of North Africa. Raisz uses special symbols for each type of land configuration, such as mountain, dendritic sandstream, dissected plateau, wind-etched limestone, knobby sandstone, lava, etc. Raisz thinks highly of this map. He tried to sell a copy of it to a student in History I62 (Westward Movement) who kept insisting he only wanted a map of the Pacific Northwest. Raisz...
...believed that the new Houses will cost approximately three million dollars, and will be built without much of the frills of the present Georgian-type, such as private bathrooms and the vertical-type entry...