Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bald head, the ANT-25 droned along at a bare 100 m. p. h. with its 2,000-gal. load of gas, passed 20 mi. away from the North Pole base. When their radio cut out under polar magnetic influence, Navigator Beliakoff used the sun compass invented by Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. It got so cold the drinking water froze, and the men would have too, but for their silk undergarments, leather breeches and turtlenecked sweaters. Only Baidukoff took a nap. Chkaloff stayed at the controls steadily, nursed his ship down over Prince Patrick Island to Ft. Simpson...
...Whatever phraseology each one of you may choose to employ, if you would be free you must first of all state to yourselves with convincing clarity your philosophy of life, the fundamentals of your faith. Then like a traveller through a forest who is equipped with a chart and compass, you need not join with others or follow the well-marked paths--you may dare to be alone...
Iron Ground. In 1844 a surveyor named William A. Burt, plagued by a dipping compass needle, discovered outcroppings of iron ore on Michigan's upper peninsula near Lake Superior. During the next few years prospectors filtered in among the Indians and trappers, word filtered out to Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo of the 30-mile Marquette iron range. Chief problem for interested capital was how to get ships into Lake Superior against the rapids of St. Mary's River. In Congress cold Henry Clay had killed an appropriation for a canal at Sault Ste. Marie, saying it might as well...
...Yeats, many a lesser fish swim through the bright underwater of Gogarty's world, and few of them are not good for a laugh, for Gogarty is never reverent even where he admires. Queerest fish of the lot is one "Endymion," who regularly steers his course home by compass, was once arrested for sabering a ham (which he had previously bought) running off with it on the end of his cutlass...
...most substantial articles display a critical conservatism. Mr. Goodhue opposes the addition of justices to the Supreme Court in an intelligent essay which loses a little of its effectiveness because the author tries to be fair and complete and view the problem from more aspects than his brief compass permits. In "Hutchins and Harvard," Mr. Geismer makes an excellently loyal and well-reasoned reply to criticism by the President of the University of Chicago. Two lighter pieces fulfill their intentions pleasantly, Mr. Thompson's rather condescending account of the life and history of the Cowley Fathers, and Mr. Straus...