Word: compassing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cultivate self-respect, but equally are they to show respect for the rights and the human feelings of others. This is a dual feat which no snob of past history has ever accomplished, or tried to accomplish. But Professor Roger's snob of the future should be able to compass it, because he is to be a snob in an altogether new sense of the word. He is bound to remember the superior advantages of training given him in college, and he is to turn these to superior account in the development of "trained, organized, fastidious, discriminating leadership...
Easter to the American Indians is the feast of the renascence of Nature. March is the time-when-the-green-lizards-come-out. Indians used to dance an eagle dance, splendid and feathered, imitating an eagle's swirling, pointing to the six points of the Indian compass (north, south, east, west, above, below), praying to Nature to yield tobacco and corn...
...meeting next month of the Model Assembly of the League of Nations at the University of Michigan will point the moral of international amity to a fascinated, if small audience. Inspired with enthusiasms as diverse as the points of the compass, aided by officials of State, it assembles with fitting ceremony to weigh opinions and swap stories. At first glance, the affair seems to be without the pale of ordinary collegiate interest. But at the present time, when colleges are admittedly the fountain from which all blessings flow, their taking the initiative in the unselfish service of moulding public opinion...
...HARDING Boston Square and Compass Club, Boston, Mass...
More than 350 miles northward was the America, 21,000-ton steamship of the U. S. Lines, bound for Manhattan. Capt. George Fried, commanding, turned to the rescue. The America's radio compass (a Kolster) contradicted the reports of position sent by Capt. Favaloro, but Capt. Fried followed his compass. All night long he sailed against tumultuous waters. During that night the bridge of the Florida, with all navigating books and instruments, went overboard. Capt. Favaloro managed to keep a sextant. In the morning he took his bearings, radioed them to Capt. Fried. The master of the America calculated them...