Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practice the pilot approaches the airport in the normal manner along the regular route beam. Twenty miles out his radio receiver, containing a reed converter, locates the course beam from the transmitter-trailer. About four miles from port at a given altitude it strikes the glide beam, a curved path of constant intensity in a field of radio waves. On the pilot's dashboard is a "cross pointer dial" operated by the reed converter. One needle indicates the course beam, the other the glide beam. Keeping the needles crossed at right angles,* the pilot guides his ship down...
...With comprehension of the big number came the inner warmth which all men feel when they achieve distinction. Mrs. Lumsden's: She was the 1,000,000th patient of the Mayo Clinic since Brothers Will & Charlie, 30 years ago, † began to count the multitude who beat a path to their remote and famed medical establishment...
...some ways the buoyant, penniless, unbreakable Bronson Alcott-who bounced up and down as good-naturedly as if the path from success to failure was the most pleasant and natural one in the world-symbolized this spirit better than anyone else...
Perhaps the most exasperating, most infuriating of the petty hazards of life, which tend to delay the student are the snowy, ice-crusted side-walks which are to be found on every street near Harvard Square, and worst of all on every path in the Yard. Occasionally one can find a few traces of sand or ashes on an otherwise glassy, treacherous surface, but such life-saving spots are far and few between, and when found, they exist only in small piles, so that their effectiveness is definitely limited. In order to navigate with even a modicum of safety...
Miriam gave the Beards clear title to first U. S. historical family when she brought out her 779-page History of the Business Man, tracing the devious path of capitalists from Babylon to Roosevelt...