Word: compassable
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...avoid confusion the architects (Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott of Boston) put green floors in the surgical sections, blue floors in the operating departments, grey in the medical divisions. There are special light fixtures for each department. Wherever corridors intersect, a star in the floor shows the points of the compass...
Died. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, 65, physicist and inventor; of heart disease; in Hamilton, Bermuda. He pioneered the development of radio telephony, was credited with inventing the radio-compass, electrically-driven battleships, numerous submarine safety devices...
...artists on their trade, offered a $10 prize for a patriotic U. S. art slogan. Last week Commercial Artist Valentine Sandberg won the $10 but the League made a few changes. He had put his clarion call in a design of crossed artists' brushes. The League added a compass, a modeling tool and a crayon to symbolize all its members. And it changed Artist Sandberg's slogan, "Choose American Art" to "I Am For American Art," the design from a rectangle to an oval, the inscription "American Artists" to "The American Artists Professional League...
Ingenious is the theory that "news" derives from an old newspaper practice of printing the compass points...
...Tsar's army. Kylenko and his underlings are put aboard ship for Sebastopol, to be executed. They capture the ship and head it back for Theodosia which has been recaptured by Reds. The aristocrats on board, aided by the dancing girl, try to magnetize the ship's compass so that they can steer for Sebastopol without letting Kylenko find out about it. For a time the boat is practically spinning in the Black Sea; but when it docks its passengers find themselves at Theodosia. Dmitri is taken off, still smoking, to face a firing squad. The dancing girl...