Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, imagine that our flight was more than a first tottering step toward establishing commercial transoceanic air service, but we did prove that a West-to-East flight was possible. We gained much valuable experience, however, especially concerning the magnetic fields over Labrador, where our compass responses were exceedingly eccentric...
...trip could be more difficult or more hazardous. Because of the constant variation of the compass in such close proximity to the magnetic pole, navigation is a matter of genius. Because the vast area is unexplored, landing in case of emergency becomes a matter of prayer. No ship patrols the frozen reaches of the Arctic; no lighthouse points the way. Said Commander Byrd: "I congratulate him most heartily." Added Lincoln Ellsworth: "My hat comes off to the pluck of a brave gentleman...
...preserve its historic association, not to aid the University in providing convenient lodgings for its students, but merely to stretch as best they may their own pocket books, have the latest purchasers of Beck Hall sought its ownership. If financial expediency so dictates they may even compass its total demolition...
...carried a compass and level, while a Negro assistant named "George" carried...
...talk that U. S. bankers are planning handsome developments, which is to say exploitations, in Peru. But Mr. Moore, with all the money a man could decently desire, is far above being a dollar diplomatist. All he might gain is greater familiarity with financial bigwigs, and that he could compass by far handier means; as a home-loving tabloid publisher, for example...