Word: meridian
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There is in existence an extremely rare poem written in 1718 by persons unknown, the flamboyant title of this opus is "A Satyrical Description of Commencement: Calculated to the meridian of Cambridge in New England." The picture that it gives is neither wholesome nor pretty, and it is to be hoped, that since it is termed "satyrical", it is not too faithful to fact...
...hours their instruments told them they were at the Pole. They bared their heads, dropped their flags, and after circling for 2½ hours, set their rudder to follow the 160th meridian of West Longitude down the opposite curve of the world...
Roughly, the fourth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich cuts across the territory of Abd-el-Krim,* from Alhucemas on the Mediterranean to Kifane on the western war frontier. Roughly the Spanish and the French decided last week to pinch together their forces along this meridian; pinched and pinched until their armies stood but 40 miles apart, with Ajdir, the capital of Abd-el-Krim between them...
Moved northwest from the naked shore, the moon moved to meridian, the slow pulse of the ocean...
...Senators, it is 12 o'clock meridian (the audience again burst out laughing) of the fourth day of March, 1925, and it is my duty at this moment under the Constitution and laws of the United States to declare that the Senate of the 68th Congress is adjourned 'syne dee.'" (So the phrase sounded to the listeners...