Word: orientator
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...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...
Harvard men have an especial interest in the inauguration of this latest introduction of modern educational methods into the Orient in view of the formation of the Harvard-Yenching Institute last year which led to the re-organization and expansion of the Chinese Department in the University. It has been frequently pointed out that there are vast stores of knowledge of an older civilization than any in the Occident that are all but ignored in the West. But of even more importance is the spread of European institutions and culture to the East...
...swart Prince Mirza Mohammed Ali Khan Foroughi assumed the chair. Perspiring, he constantly wiped his brow with a bright pink silk handkerchief. Then diffidently, as though conscious that the words of a Prince were as chaff to these commoners, he sped the Assembly's, proceedings with a dash of Orient philosophy thus...
News values were vague. Dissertations upon the hot weather in Philadelphia, arrival of muslins from the Orient, occupied as much space as his "dearly beloved Majesty" addressing Parliament...