Word: compassable
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...pigeon's own magnetic compass could not, by itself, bring him back to his roost. Like a ship, a pigeon needs some other instrument too. Many places on the earth's surface have identical magnetic conditions. A pigeon guided by his compass alone might end up almost anywhere...
...near the poles are carried around more slowly in smaller, tighter circles. The direction and variation of this circling can be felt by various man-made instruments, such as the gyrocompass. Why shouldn't pigeons feel it, too? If they could, they would have, along with their "magnetic compass," a satisfactory navigating instrument...
...their breathing. Powerful searchlights outside the cabin will light up the sea, and allow fish and other bathyfauna to be observed and photographed. Because time for note-taking will be short, a recording device will bring back a running commentary on the dive. The depth ship's experimental compass will be outside the cabin too, since the earth's magnetism will not penetrate the thick steel walls...
...lockets and viewed cupped in the hand, the miniatures showed up surprisingly well under the cold glass of the museum's showcases. Most were only two inches in their largest dimension, often pasted on the back of cut-down playing cards, but in their small compass Hilliard had captured much of the sensuous exuberance of the age of Drake, Spenser and Sidney. One was a self-portrait, at 30, fine-featured and candid-eyed, painted against Hilliard's favorite indigo-blue background. The biggest (see cut) was a 10⅛-inch painting of the buccaneering 3rd Earl...
Last week, as events reinforced the limb on which he had long been impudently perching, Stabler gibed: "Get yourself a compass, a divining rod, walk backward through a dark alley at three minutes after midnight and everything will be made clear. The first of them who comes out honestly and admits that the hocus-pocus of the Dow theory made him miss nine weeks of the bull market will deserve a seat on the Stock Exchange, upholstered in bearskin...