Word: compassions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aircraft engineering jargon, rho is distance, theta is azimuth, i.e., compass bearing to the transmitting station...
Died. Hannibal Choate Ford, 77, noted engineer-inventor, who helped the late Elmer Sperry perfect the Gyro-Compass (1911), during and after World War I developed the world's first mechanical control-computer for naval gunfire; of arteriosclerosis; in Kings Point...
...John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. The story begins with Edwin (Richard Burton) as a boy of eleven already playing the nurse to his father, Junius Brutus Booth (Raymond Massey), a magnificent ruin, mad at least north-northwest and crazy for drink at all points of the compass, as he careers across the wilderness to be Hamlet in mining camps. Richard to the river towns, and Lear to the field mice that scamper in his tousled wits...
...Israel's President Itzhak Ben-Zvi, and the audience assembled in Jerusalem's Rav Kook Institute one day last week recognized the old Jewish saying. They had assembled to honor the second Moses, the great philosopher Maimonides, who brought the Law and tradition of Judaism within the compass of Western thought. Around the walls of the institute were some 3,000 old and battered volumes, stained from centuries of diligent study. The exhibition of his work was the first of many celebrations of Maimonides Year-the 750th anniversary of his death...
...High-Speed High-Latitude Celestial-Navigation Trainer was specially designed by Link Aviation Inc. to simulate the flights of jet bombers over the arctic, where the magnetic compass is practically useless and the sun often out of sight...