Word: quadrantal
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...McAvoy should . . . have taken time to have the engineer put the power reverse gear handle in forward motion on the quadrant, instead of reverse, as in its present position, when he pulls the throttle, the engine will reverse, and if he's a good engineer and has his slack ''bunched," he won't move the train...
...Evelyn Byrd, last week, and for the first time since he came to fame, made public tribute to his wife. It was 14 years and a month after they were married. He, in Antarctica, had just flown over and claimed for the U. S. unknown land in the Pacific Quadrant* of the continent, between his base on Ross Sea and Sir George Hubert Wilkins' base on Weddell Sea. The region is south of the long-known Alexandra Mountains and the Byrd-discovered Rockefeller mountains, a great stretch of rumpled iciness...
...Cartographers divide the South Polar regions into Pacific, Australian, African and American Quadrants. The Pacific Quadrant is between the 90th and 180th lines of west longitude...
...thereby winning for his battery 75 points on the Federal rating, and permitting him to wear the gunner's insignia on the sleeve of his coat. The subjects to be taught are: Direct laying with peep and panoramic sight; indirect laying with the panoramic sight; laying for range with quadrant; fuse setting with hand and bracket fuse-setters; assembling and disassembling breech-block and study of material...
...edge of the president's driveway. The structure is recessed back from Quincy street with an arched passageway for pedestrians on each side of the great centre gate. On the inner or yard side the gate will be flanked by semi-circular brick walls about four feet high, the quadrant of each curve nearest the gate containing a stone bench...