Word: compassed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frederick August Kolster, who has contributed as much to radio as any man now alive, has invented yet another radio device, a machine for shooting a radio beam at whatever point on earth he pleases. His previous inventions have been the invaluable radio compass, the radio fog signal system, the mobile radio beacon to protect ships in fog, the decremeter which measures wave lengths and dampens radio oscillations, the Kolster radio receiving set. He created the Bureau of Standard's radio section and is its chief. He is chief research engineer of the Federal Telegraph Co. and its allied...
...adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was twentysix. I got the idea from a book by Orlando Smith. Until I discovered this theory, I was unsettled and dissatisfied-without a compass, so to speak...
Died. Morris M. Titterington, 35, and lady friend, in a plane smash; at Pottsville, Pa. He founded the Pioneer Instrument Co., invented the earth inductor compass, said to have made long airplane flights possible...
...brought it aft, with the rope fast, and lashed it on the quarter by the cock-pit. When morning came, and they could see somewhat through the haze, they found themselves off Minot's Ledge instead of Marblehead. The anchor on the quarter had caused a deviation of the compass in the cock-pit; a result they had not foreseen. Of course no moral was involved in this case, but it may illustrate what I mean. The compass is to the mariner what conscience is to a man. A deviation involves a wrong course. That is the significance...
...following program will be given at the Pops concert in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock tonight: Marche Militaire Schubert Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg a. Morning Mood b. Death of Aase c. Anitra's Dance d. In the Troll King's Grotto Boston Square and Compass Club Chorus a. O. Italia, Italia," from "Luerezia b. Rolling Down to Rio German c. Moonlight and Roses Lemare Overture to "Oberon" Weber Prelude to Act III. "Traviata" Verdi Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner Overture to "William Tell" Rossini