Word: quadrants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...