Word: compassable
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...Israel's President Itzhak Ben-Zvi, and the audience assembled in Jerusalem's Rav Kook Institute one day last week recognized the old Jewish saying. They had assembled to honor the second Moses, the great philosopher Maimonides, who brought the Law and tradition of Judaism within the compass of Western thought. Around the walls of the institute were some 3,000 old and battered volumes, stained from centuries of diligent study. The exhibition of his work was the first of many celebrations of Maimonides Year-the 750th anniversary of his death...
...High-Speed High-Latitude Celestial-Navigation Trainer was specially designed by Link Aviation Inc. to simulate the flights of jet bombers over the arctic, where the magnetic compass is practically useless and the sun often out of sight...
...handy 'rosary-counter,' [which] has a small dial with all fifteen mysteries. A moving needle points, compass-like, to each bead (or number, in this case) as you click the handy little red plastic button. So you're interrupted. Look! The needle stays loyally on the elusive bead. Not a mystery is allowed to slip through your fingers anymore...
...scoutmaster arrived. Instead, brisk, businesslike officials gave each man a number and a map. One by one, as the numbers were called, each man trotted off by himself, whipped out a small compass, lined up his map and raced into the tangled underbrush. For the next three hours, they pounded across rough, trackless terrain, climbed steep hills, forded icy streams, slogged through black swamps. Every couple of miles they passed through carefully spotted check points to prove that they were sticking to a prearranged course. If they read the maps well enough, were good enough woodsmen, and if their legs...
...that he has proved it by measuring the magnetism of ancient rocks. Both volcanic and sedimentary rocks, as they are formed, tend to become magnetized by the earth's magnetic field. Their magnetism, though very feeble, is parallel to the magnetic field that formed it, pointing like a compass needle toward the magnetic pole...