Word: compassing
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Observers noted that Japan's Shidehara had thus completely boxed the diplomatic compass, done all an able diplomat could to create an odor of sanctity, yet had left Japan free to take full advantage of whatever situation her militarists are able to develop in Manchuria...
Roosevelt Field, Inc. sued him. He filed a countersuit for the $900,000 which he claimed to have lost by not reaching the sale promptly. In his suit, he charged that the plane had been forced down at Jacksonville owing to a defective compass, an inexperienced pilot, and that, even without these handicaps, it would have been incapable of flying to Miami in 14 hours. Roosevelt Field, Inc. last week asked the court for permission to change the name of the defendant in Passenger Richey's suit to Roosevelt Flying Corp. which operated his plane; claimed that Roosevelt Field...
...angle whatever. Required: to divide any angle into three equal parts, using only straight lines and circles in the construction. Thousands of mathematicians have sought to solve that problem. It is comparatively easy of solution with a peculiarly linked chain or by means of complex curves which no compass can draw on a flat surface; but impossible, mathematicians generally agree, with the simple tools of straightedge and compass...
...first part of his ocean trip Pilot Post had "little to do." He lounged in his upholstered chair, one hand resting lightly on the stick, his good right eye glued to compass, tachometer, altimeter...
Arthur Fiedler will offer the following program at the Pop concert in Symphony Hall tonight, with the Boston Square and Compass Club male choir assisting: "Father of Victory" march Ganne "Roman Carnival" overture Berlioz "La Source" ballet suite Delibes "St. Botolph" Boston Square and Compass Choir Chadwick "Marche Slave" Tchaikoysky "The Night March" Kountz "Mother of Mine" Boston Square and Compass Choir Burleigh "Nina Rosa" selections Romberg "Love's Dream After the Ball" Czibulka "March of the Sardar" Ippolito-Ivanov