Word: horizon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imposing many of her personal prejudices as rules for contemporary and future generations to follow. Emily Bruce Price Post-who 30-odd years ago married and divorced Edwin Main Post, Manhattan banker and socialite-was but a comely divorcée somewhat in need of cash, a woman whose horizon was largely bounded by Newport and Park Avenue when she unwittingly wrote a book which was to make her fame and fortune. Today, at 64, she is a prosperous businesswoman whose horizon has been considerably broadened by her responsibility as autocrat of U. S. etiquette, by the impact...
...flywheel will continue to rotate in the same plane. This stability provides a known factor which can be used to determine or counteract all sorts of variables. Sperry Gyroscope Co. Inc. sells a gyrocompass which is standard equipment on most liners, gyrostabilizer to prevent ships from rolling, gyro-horizon to indicate the attitude of planes in relation to the horizontal, directional gyro to indicate direction for steering a straight course. Greatest refinement of all is the gyropilot, which is standard on most airline transports. It has two simple gyros, one (directional gyro) spinning on a horizontal axis, the other (gyro...
...snatch victory" at any cost. Then, remembering the recent improvement in Anglo-Italian relations, he stood on the prow of a dummy destroyer erected in Messina's flag-strung streets, minimized the importance of the war games with a wish to "dispel untimely & absurd alarms darkening the horizon, because my journey to Sicily has ends that are purely peaceful & constructive...
...that such density is not a mere irregularity of distribution but a cosmic entity. Although the great cloud is 100,000,000 light-years from Earth, beyond the reach of all but the most powerful telescopes, it stretches across nearly one-fourth of the sky's arc from horizon to horizon...
...eclipse. I could see to the west all the way under the moon's shadow to where the sun shone more than 150 miles away. This low saffron brightness ascended steadily during the eclipse. At the centre it went all around to about 10° above the horizon, above that changing gradually to a dark blue. After totality the shadow was seen in the high haze to the east for several minutes...