Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...airport at Oakland, Calif., early in the morning with favorable weather. In the afternoon they hungered, but were unable to find their chicken sandwiches, soup and coffee (which some cautious helpmate had wrapped in a tarpaulin and tucked under the plane's plotting board). When their radio beacon compass went awry, that night, they used the stars. Next morning they landed at Wheeler Field near Honolulu, having completed, in 25 hours, 50 minutes, the longest over-water hop* ever made by man. As honest servants of the U. S. Government, they promptly refused a $10,000 offer made...
Their earth inductor compass had fits of running wild, their radio had become disabled, they were fast running out of gasoline-when suddenly at 3 a. m. they saw the sea-coast and the flicker of a lighthouse beacon beneath them. That was the moment when Commander Byrd scribbled: "We are going to land." It was safer to drop into the sea than to crash into unyielding, un known, fog-blanketed land, he decided...
...following program will be given tonight at the Pops: Overture to "Norma" Bellini Air for String Orchestra, from the Suite in D major, No. 3 Bach Overture to "Leonore No. 3" Beethoven The Square and Compass Club Choir a. Hymn to Nature Beethoven b. The Lost Chord Sullivan "The Magic Flute," Overture Mozart Unfinished Symphony in B minor Schubert "Euryanthe," Overture Weber Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms Waltz, "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Overture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky
...Instruments. Over and over again "Lucky" had repeated that his "luck" had consisted chiefly in a faultless motor, a periscope by which he watched ahead without exposure, and in an earth induction compass by which alone he steered to a point within three miles of his theoretic arrival point in Ireland...
...instrument board of an airplane are also: an oil pressure gauge, gasoline gauge, thermometer (for motor temperature), turn-and-bank indicator, rate-of-climb indicator, altimetre, air speed indicator, compass, clock...