Word: quadrantal
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...Macon County's State Senator Sam Engelhardt Jr., executive secretary of the Alabama Association of Citizens' Councils, the remedy was obvious. Sam Engelhardt, taking a look at Tuskegee's square-mile area, noted that most of the city's Negroes live in the northwest quadrant near the institute or to the south of it. The remedy, which he proposed to the state legislature this spring: shrink the city limits by some 50%-and in such a way as to reduce Tuskegee's Negro population to about 400, its registered Negro voters to nine. Both houses...
...forming an ordered, destructive doughnut. Full grown, a hurricane develops more energy in each second than several atomic bombs, and nothing can be done about it directly. But there is a possibility that a hurricane's symmetry can be damaged. If the rate of energy release in one quadrant of a hurricane can be increased or decreased, the storm may change its direction, perhaps missing by miles a vulnerable coast...
Guam, Tinian and Saipan can be converted into vast airfields from which U.S. bombers can sweep the whole quadrant of sea from the southern coast of China to Japan itself...
...pose as an expert in celestial navigation. . . . Yet the testimony of his own journals proves that the simple method of finding latitude from a meridional observation of the sun . . . was unknown to Columbus." He was unable to use the newly invented astrolabe, and probably had none aboard. The common quadrant was his only instrument of celestial navigation. Mostly he sailed by dead reckoning, "which means simply laying down your compass courses and estimated distances on a chart...
...late in joining the squabble. Until last year it had only an unofficial 110-mile ring around the Pole, plotted out by Captain Roald Amundsen when he reached the bottom of the world in 1911. But in January, King Haakon VII brought the coast between the disputed Falkland quadrant and the Australian section under the Norwegian flag, to clinch a twelve-year mapping job backed by Norwegian Whale Tycoon Lars Christensen. Last month impatient Little Führer Vidkun Quisling made up for all lost time by announcing outright Norwegian ownership of the whole Antarctic...