Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After serving for some time in this capacity, Professor Lemaire was detailed to Paris, where he worked on scientific problems. By far the greatest of his accomplishments was his invention of the gyroscope compass, independently of the researches of Sperry, of which he was unaware. While in Paris, Professor Lemaire obtained a degree from the Sorbonne. His researches were soon after recognized and the Academy des Sciences awarded him the Plumey prize, and the Minister of the Navy conferred upon him the Grand Medaille...
...great mirror of life. All creative activities extend human consciousness, and enlarge human power. But there is this difference. A chemist or an engineer may remain ignorant in other departments of knowledge. The function of drama is to bring the infinite variety of the living world into convenient compass for observation. To increase knowledge of humanity is to enlarge humanity...
...return journey, with constant requests for compass directions, did not hinder the Los Angeles from keeping up a steady clip of 50 miles an hour or so; and, at 12:36 on Sunday morning, the great airship was back at Lakehurst...
...incoming Freshman, and no less to busy upper classmen who have so little time to experiment on strange volumes. In his special field of study the student soon becomes competent to select authors for himself. In the departments of his "distribution" he is also possessed of some kind of compass. But unless his education has gone far beyond that of the average undergraduate all else is an uncharted sea. To have friendly access to a humanist who would pilot him past the shoals of literary rubbish and trash to the great books that are beacons of knowledge would...
Flying in the densest fog will soon have no terrors for the aviator. On the airway between Dayton, Ohio, and Moundsville, W. Va., the Army Air Service has installed a "radio compass," with electric oscillations flashing between the towers at either end of the airway. An aviator flying exactly on the course hears only dashes; if his plane turns to left or right of the course and a coil in his receiving equipment is at an angle to the course, he hears a warning signal, dash and dot, or dot and dash, as the case...