Word: compassable
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...Russia this summer to take observations on astronomical phenomena best observed there. Meanwhile Princeton does not lose her reputation for preminence in spectroscopy. The top of the observatory has been painted blue. Why, it is impossible to tell. The conical-roofed tower glared with blue light over the compass, unpleasantly and unwelcomedly...
...explanation of problems met in the field. Advanced knowledge of geology will not be required, but only teachers, graduates of colleges or persons of maturity and some training can be admitted. Only men can be accepted as students. Each student should have a satchel, note-book, hammer and compass. There will be opportunities to collect rocks and fossils...
...their seats, there is a pause for a moment and then the conversation begins. The range it takes is wide: one morning the freshman crew, the glee club, the banjo club, theatres, sport in general and the triumphs of one of the speakers in society, were discussed in the compass of forty minutes. At the last topic the talkers usually stop and for the ten minutes that remain of the hour, their neighbors enjoy a long wished quiet. Meanwhile how do the lecturer's word reach the unfortunate men who sit near those I have described. Something in this fashion...
...erected on the banks of the Neckar an enormous Jubilee Building, in which 7,000 people could be seated. Every house was decorated with bunting and evergreen, and from every house-top floated the twin yellow and red of the Duchy of Baden. From all points of the compass long railroad trains came pouring in; all the hotels were filled; the streets were thronged; every face was aglow with enthusiasm...
...think every well wisher of the Association will agree with me that some change ought to be made by which men who reach the Hall at nine o'clock can get away before ten. And further, that a failure to compass such a change, will indicate either gross mismanagement, or gross negligence on the part of the officers of the Association...