Word: compassable
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...little man, Charles Clavier, 33, regarded the ship's radio equipment with dancing eyes. That was to be his job, to pick up weather signals midair; to study the air tides, take the radio compass bearings. It was work with which 18 years in the French navy, including four trans-Mediterranean air flights, had made him most familiar. He had brought over from France special instruments, contributed by the big corporation, Radio des Industries. After an annoying fortnight with U. S. customs officials, he had installed and tested his station while the ship's engines and flying gear...
...university life. It means the companionship of cultivated minds. It means refuge from the mechanical efficiency of a complacent world. But they are human. They want wives, families. And they want for those wives and families some measure of what other men are getting. A salary of certainly small compass is all that the university can give them. They leave for the forum and the market place. The game is not worth the candle...
...Dispatches containing this phrase neglected to recall the crash at Croydon on Christmas Eve, 1925, when an Imperial Airways pilot and his seven passengers died instantly. *Inventor Elmer A. Sperry of the gyroscope compass and commercial gyroscope, began engineering 45 years ago as a lighting man in Chicago; has developed a searchlight for war use, of which the 1,200,000,000-candlepower beam will pick out objects 30,000 ft. high in the night heavens (TIME, March...
...Bear Island was raised and passed without the fog complications that had been feared. Then the southern capes of Spitzbergen loomed dimly and the aeronauts established radio contact with operators at Kings Bay, who had listened all night to the whine of the Norge's instrument asking for compass directions, reporting all was well...
...testing again his triple-engined Fokker monoplane, the Josephine Ford (in honor of a 3-year-old daughter of a financial backer, Edsel Ford); after laying in 200 smoke bombs and a supply of potassium permanganate (purple when moistened) to be used as targets for his drift-indicator (compass) when flying over snowfields; after discussing landing-skis with a Canadian expert and buying a second extra set, larger than any, for the Josephine, as well as a small set for her tail; after explaining into a microphone for the radio public how he intends to visit the North Pole...