Word: compassable
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...Eotechnic Phase (1000-1750) brought into being new inventions (mechanical clocks, telescope, printing press, magnetic compass), improved older ones (lathe, loom), invented the experimental method in science. "Measuring the gains not in horsepower originally used but in work finally accomplished, the eotechnic period compares favorably both with the epochs that preceded it and with the phases of mechanical civilization that followed...
...Manchu but pure Chinese were the golden Chow who ruled China for 866 years (1122-256 B. C), longest-lived of all China's dynasties. Under Chow emperors Chinese savants were instrumental in discovering the compass. Under them, too, was established the first "league of nations," a League of States to prevent War, in 515 B.C. "How courteous and elegant are all its way" wrote Confucius. "I am for the House of Chow...
...matter for speculation. Certainly the technique of arranging musical instruments before a microphone has increased the illusion of reality almost as much as the widened tonal range of most of the modern receiving sets. With many of the earlier loudspeakers, the only sounds possible to their narrow compass were the modulations of the crooner (an express specialization for the radio) or the stridencies of the more African jazz. But dance music is returning to melody, popular singing to full vocal range, and pari passu the more artistic euphonies are coming into their...
...will be no surprise to any one already acquainted with the writers that the contributions to this collection of short essays on national economic policy are of a high order of professional competence. More than that, the writers have succeeded in expressing their views in remarkably short compass and without resort to that private terminology of the economist which is inevitably bewildering to the layman. Rather a novel appearance--at least in this particular part of the world--this joint sally into the melee of popular economic discussion merits applause, and will, it may be hoped, serve as a precedent...
...direct as a compass, as decisive and brief as a dictionary definition, and as poised, as gracious and friendly as all well-bred women is Frances Perkins, the woman selected by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to represent labor in his official family...