Word: compassed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentlemen here Belgium has sent its representative men with power to negotiate. The question before us is of narrow compass. There are but two parties to our negotiations. Politics, local or international, are not involved. We sit here, reasonable men, around a table. Under such conditions we will soon learn each others' viewpoints, determine the true facts governing the situation, and should reach an agreement fair to your country and to ours...
Williams has handed us an accurate compass, and, believing in the brotherhood of man, the fatherhood of God and with that compass pointed to the star of Bethlehem...
...radio sets-the product of a company reported to be headed by E. F. MacDonald, second in command to MacMillan. The Navy type is a long wave set, believed to operate better than the short wave type when a plane is in flight. It is also better for radio compass work...
...line of vision, and there fore failing to take into account a part of the factors in the problem. Such near-sightedness, or defective vision, is due partly to our ignorance in large part unavoidable because we know, and can know, only a small portion of the influite compass of eternal truth. If is partly due also to the narrowness of our sympathies' which prevents us from comprehending the sentiments and point of view of others, who are quite as sincere, intelligent and well informed as ourselves, perhaps familiar with aspects of the matter we know little about and gifted...
...recent years the Album has expanded enormously. This is partly due to the steady growth in class enrolment, and partly to a gradual enlargement of the volume's scope. To compass the material about the class of 1925 it has taken exactly twenty pages more than were needed for the 1922 Album...