Word: orientating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilson, in Peiping, China, was telling about her Orient-touring experiences, including a $3 ride in a baggage car to see the Great Wall. The conductor, learning his passenger's identity, got her a chair, a supply of tea, rice cakes, persimmons...
...Bedbug" is an intimate name for a small incredibly vicious insect of the hemipterous family Cimicidae. He is oval, fat, wingless and rich brown. He has piercing suctorial mouth-parts. The bedbug of Europe and U. S. is cimex lectularius; his more obese cousin, cimex rotundatus, infests the Orient. It is at night that he marauds, hiding in crevices in daytime. He confines his activities to man, whose blood he sucks, upon whose body he makes his permanent home. Among the bedbug's relations is the singing cicada, who lives on plants and, sucking, makes merry music. Unrelated...
Yesterday morning a man quietly mounting the steps of the New Fogg Museum was thrown violently down the whole flight by one of the neophytes for no other apparent reason than that he was born and brought up in the Orient. A passerby on Quincy Street was embarrased by public aspersion on his virility. When drinking or initiation requirements lead to this sort of thing it has been time to stop long before...
...Admiral's rank and kept beside him at the White House. But Dr. Grayson was inaccessible in Europe. From the late President's daughters-Miss Margaret Wilson, Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre, Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo-came no statements. The President's widow was inaccessible in the Orient...
Blind flying, where nothing of the ground or horizon can be seen, is the terror of aviation. At the speed of plane flight (100 m.p.h., usually) a pilot loses his sense of balance. At night or in fog, where he cannot orient himself against ground objects, he flies to one side, his wings tilt, the plane goes up, down or, happily, level. He does not know. His instruments go "hay wire." He is helpless. In terror he may try to guide himself. Generally that is useless. Experienced professional pilots, particularly on the night mail routes, often set their planes...