Word: compassable
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...Mind, for anything perception can compass, goes in our spatial world more ghostly than a ghost. . . . What then does it amount to? All that counts in life. Desire, zest, truth, love, knowledge, 'values' and seeking metaphor to eke out expression, hell's depth and heaven's utmost height...
Cadets will receive a foundation in nautical science as applied to yachting, a general knowledge of life afloat, and instruction in the use of distress signals, the compass, the duties of lookouts, and related matter. Boys from 10 to 21 are eligible...
...previous time has American security been as seriously threatened from without as it is today. . . . Today, thank God, 130,000,000 Americans, in 48 States, have forgotten points of the compass in our national unity...
...Industrial Revolution determined the location of Europe's heavy industries-close to the sources of coal and iron. Europe's major coal field lies roughly in a great arc. Using Oslo as a centre it is possible to describe that arc with a compass. It begins in the Scottish Lowland and ends in Upper Silesia. On it or close to it are strewn the maroon areas of mining districts and the red areas of manufacturing-the English Midlands, South Wales, northern France, Belgium's Sambre-Meuse Valley, Holland's Limburg, the Saar, the Ruhr, middle Germany...
...Boer War. It described a young newspaper reporter who had fought like a professional soldier when a British armored train was ambushed by Boers; had been captured and held as prisoner of war, had climbed over the ten-foot iron fence of his prison with no map or compass, but a little money and some cubes of chocolate in his pockets, and had eventually taken refuge at the bottom of a mine. It described and-with the exception of the age and the mustache, which was just a medal of not-quite-certain manhood-still does describe Winston Churchill...