Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fell said he has a copy of a magnetic compass from what he believes to be about 200 B.C., indicating that Iberians and Libyans were accomplished sailors and could have reached North America at that time...
...bladed propeller (the propeller can also be turned backward). After about 20 minutes under water, Bushnell began to run out of air, but he was determined to continue as long as possible. For another 25 minutes, he cranked the Turtle through the dark waters, steering by a phosphorescent compass needle. Then, when he could stand no more, he released his lead ballast, pumped the water out of the vessel and emerged exhausted on the surface...
...fixed points on the tourist compass are, traditionally, the Capitol and the White House. One can stand at the White House fence and wave to Henry Kissinger or visiting potentates as they come and go; one can jump aboard a Senate subway car with lawmakers whose faces will be on the evening news. Last week the Capitol was unveiling a major new restoration−the old Senate chamber has been returned to its 19th century splendor, replete with red plush benches and coffered half-dome ceiling−just as it was when it rang with the debates of Daniel Webster...
...then spent two years in Southern California, working part time, listening and learning and meeting thousands of Americans. It was there that I found a political compass that has served me well through my subsequent lifetime career as a parliamentarian, internationalist and democrat...
...Navy flyers] were killed at Hiroshima." Determined to avoid any tendentiousness, Sherwin is sometimes too cautious in presenting his insights, which are numerous but tucked away. The modesty is misplaced. Jona than Swift once observed, "the greatest inventions were produced in times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gun powder, printing." To that list of dark times must be added the 1940s; to the list of new devices, atomic weapons. A World Destroyed does much to explain the invention - and far more to dispel the ignorance...