Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Demonstrating the method of creation of the so-called "projected contour" maps, which represent graphically but accurately the altitudes of mountains and deserts, an exhibit of the maps of Richard Edes Harrison, staff cartographer of Fortune Magazine, went on display yesterday in Robinson Hall...
Sponsored by Bremer W. Pond, Charles Eliot Professor of Landscape Architecture, and Norman T. Newton, assistant professor of Landscape Architecture, the exhibit consists of the original sketches and the finished product of a score of Harrison's productions in Fortune...
...Harrison developed his system, Professor Pond explained yesterday, in order that maps could be more easily understood by the average reader. They give the same impression as that given by an oblique airplane photograph, and clearly show the relations of the physical features of a country to each other...
...making most of his maps Harrison spreads an ordinary map out on a huge globe, photographs it, and uses the resulting picture as the basis of the finished product in order to get the proper spherical effect...
...spite of four errors in the Belmont Hill game, the outfield should shape up into a strong part of the team. Bill Harrison and either Phelan or Waldstein seem secure, but the third position is still one of the many problems confronting Coach Samborski. Only yesterday he moved Haley out from third, substituting Read at the hot corner...