Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proceed with the publication of the book. He wrote on January 18 and January 25, long before the book was published in full these two very vehement letters, copies of which are in my possession, as well as his very unusual correspondence with Ted O. Thackrey, of the "Daily Compass," in which Thackrey accuses him of voting criminally. How, further, can his statement that nobody of the Harvard Observatory made any effort to harm or impress the publication of "Worlds in Collision" be squared with the letter of his assistant. Professor Fred I. Whipple, to the Blakiston Company. Philadelphia...
...weeks ago Tito was proud of this press freedom. He told New York Compass Writer I. F. Stone that "anybody . could say whatever he wanted to in Yugoslavia . . . nobody was punished for saying what he pleased . . ." and that "it could be seen in Yugoslavia that [the government] tried to encourage criticism of all negative phenomena...
...days after the three-caravel fleet eased west from the Canary Islands, the scientific mysteries of a strange watery world began to crop up. On Sept. 13 the compass needles pointed 3½° west of the North Star. Christopher Columbus and his jittery mariners had never before seen this westerly shift. But Columbus guessed an explanation: the North Star moves.* This was a notable contribution to the science of navigation and it was the expedition's first triumph over the mysteries that dogged the voyage...
Thomas, "the perennial candidate for president," has run for office six times on the Socialist platform. Thackrey, new editor of the New York Compass, supported Henry Wallace's Progressive Party...
Downward Pull. An even more promising instrument is a special version of the ancient magnetic compass. Ordinary magnetic compasses are of little use in the far north. Their needles do not swing normally, but often try to point almost directly downward toward the magnetic pole a few hundred miles away. The "flux-gate" compass, which uses coils instead of needles, eliminates the downward pull and shows only the small horizontal pull toward the magnetic pole. The compass does not point north, of course. Since the magnetic pole is many miles south of the geographical North Pole, the compass often points...