Word: compassion
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Members of the Class of 1932 who served as Junior ushers during the rainy morning and afternoon of last year's Class Day will particularly appreciate the good judgment of the present Committee in bringing within the compass of the afternoon the more important exercises, formerly interspersed throughout...
When shrewd old James Eli Watson, Republican leader of the Senate, who knows well his President's antipathy to direct relief, made this declaration last week it became finally clear that the Senate weather-vane had been blasted half way round the compass by the cold wind of Want. To relieve or not to relieve was no longer the question. It was now, as far as the Senate was concerned, how to relieve...
...Fordship Mustapha Mond granted him an old lighthouse where he could live in savagery, but television reporters hunted him out, Lenina returned to torture him and the flesh got him in the end. Early morning reporters found him dangling in his lighthouse. "Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, northeast, east, southeast, south, south-southwest...
...sinking sun, and while I was looking, the bright orange orb turned to green. Then no matter where or how long I looked in other directions, whether I shut my eyes or opened them, I saw nothing but a bright green disk. Of the sails, the boat, the compass or the water I saw nothing...
...robot pilot," the Sperry device is not supposed to take the place of a plane's crew. The human pilot must take his plane off and land it. But once in the air and on his course he adjusts the automatic device to the proper compass direction, throws in a clutch, turns his attention to weather maps, radio reports. The risk of blind flying is eliminated; the automatic pilot requires no visibility to remain on course and on even keel. Moreover, the device flies a plane more smoothly than a human. At the beginning of a flight a human...