Word: compassed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame's 1924 football eleven-Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller and Layden-came from the four points of the compass last week to reunite at Philadelphia. There, with a team mustered from other famous players of last year, including Hunsinger, All-American end, they took the field, in their first professional football game, against a team of mining-town brawnies from Pottsville, Pa., who helped by the fact that the Four Horsemen had had only two days' practice, soundly drubbed them...
...What was the point of the compass over which it appeared? Over which it disappeared? If you can revisit the point of observation with a pocket compass, you can doubtless increase the accuracy of your estimate; but in any case, state the directions as well as possible...
...clock tonight, the Harvard Square and Compass Club will hold its first meeting and smoker in the Faculty Room of the Union. C. L. Petze, president of the M. I. T. Square and Compass Club will deliver the principal address...
...from past experience that we must make our present deductions. Without a knowledge of the world's past experience we should be like a ship without a compass, shaping our course into the future by guess-work alone...
Last week at Jackson Mills (Ocean Co.), N. J., one George W. Perry, geologist of Los Angeles, Calif., reluctantly demonstrated to incredulous newspaper reporters the "Perry Mineral Indicator," a tripod apparatus fitted with compass, dials and a brass cylinder like the weight from a grandfather clock, suspended by a silken, tubular thread. Perry claimed that the cylinder contained secret ingredients which caused it to oscillate, gyrate, agitate when in the vicinity of subterraneau oil, even thousands of feet in the earth. He, Perry, was the only living soul that could operate the marvelous machine, which he did by bringing...