Word: compassed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock--"The Gyroscopic Compass" by Professor H. T. Stetson, Astronomical Laboratory. (Astronomy...
...change was wrought in the ancient world by the use of metals. The improvement of transportation by land and water enlarged trade, and trade brought intercourse with its new relation its enlarged horizon and its temptations to a foreign conquest, until the sailing ship and the mariner's compass opened the whole world to the people of Europe. It has been pointed out that the invention of firearms and especially of cannon destroyed the feudal organization of society, because the baron's castle was not longer a refuge difficult to capture. The extent to which the recent progress in applied...
...undergraduates in the University, and a prize of $100 is offered, with a secondary prize of $25 for the contribution next in grade of excellence. There is no definite limit as to length, but it is expected that the substance of the dissertation may be delivered within a compass of twenty minutes. The papers submitted must be delivered to Professor William Z. Ripley, at the Department of Economics, on or before March 11. Thereafter a few of the best of them will be read as a discussion in the presence of the judges selected...
...substantial framework so covered that it would appear to the eye as of the same solidity as the chimneys themselves. The result would be a gigantic H,--over a hundred feet in height and proportionately broad which would be seen to advantage from nearly every point of the compass...
Service Sunday morning at 10.30. Subject: "The Chart and Compass of the Christian Life: the Sermon on the Mount." Sunday School at 11.45. Vesper Service at 4.30: Subject, "The Lord Jesus Christ Today: Jesus our Strength in the World's Work." Everybody is welcome...