Word: compassable
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...autopilot is much lighter (weight, less than 55 lbs.) than its predecessors, and so small (volume, 1 cu. ft.) that its parts have to be assembled by watchmakers' methods. When the plane is once in the air, the pilot can point it on its compass heading, turn on the autopilot, and relax as far as flying is concerned...
...Shadow, and an ear-shattering collection of other thrillers kept on blasting through millions of loudspeakers; the announcer's thrilling command-"Ask mother nOw!"-echoed louder than ever. Fancier and more complicated box-top premiums (Planetary Maps, Atomic Bomb Rings, Magni-glow Writing Rings, Detective Badges, Compass-Magnifying Glasses, Explorer's Sun Watches) came flooding through the mails...
...proceed with the publication of the book. He wrote on January 18 and January 25, long before the book was published in full these two very vehement letters, copies of which are in my possession, as well as his very unusual correspondence with Ted O. Thackrey, of the "Daily Compass," in which Thackrey accuses him of voting criminally. How, further, can his statement that nobody of the Harvard Observatory made any effort to harm or impress the publication of "Worlds in Collision" be squared with the letter of his assistant. Professor Fred I. Whipple, to the Blakiston Company. Philadelphia...
...weeks ago Tito was proud of this press freedom. He told New York Compass Writer I. F. Stone that "anybody . could say whatever he wanted to in Yugoslavia . . . nobody was punished for saying what he pleased . . ." and that "it could be seen in Yugoslavia that [the government] tried to encourage criticism of all negative phenomena...
...days after the three-caravel fleet eased west from the Canary Islands, the scientific mysteries of a strange watery world began to crop up. On Sept. 13 the compass needles pointed 3½° west of the North Star. Christopher Columbus and his jittery mariners had never before seen this westerly shift. But Columbus guessed an explanation: the North Star moves.* This was a notable contribution to the science of navigation and it was the expedition's first triumph over the mysteries that dogged the voyage...