Word: zenith
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...year 1920 saw General Baron Wrangel at the zenith of his power. He was then recognized by France as the Supreme Head of the so-called Government of South Russia...
...Habits. Lowell Schmaltz inhabits Zenith, the hypothetical midwestern town boomed by the famed realtor George F. Babbitt...
Thus, with true British matter-of-fact farewells, Sir Samuel and his Air Lady entered the Hercules which vanished into the zenith five minutes later. Courageous, nonchalant, they had set out to inaugurate the 6,000-mile commercial airway from the Empire Capital via Cairo to Delhi, the Indian Capital...
...easier to remember. At latitude 45 degrees, the north celestial pole is at an altitude of 45 degrees above the northern horizon. From this pole to the equator is naturally 90 degrees, making 155 degrees: and since it is 10 degrees from any point of the horizon through the zenith to the opposite point, i. e., half a circle, we have left 15 degrees, the distance to which one can see below the equator at that latitude. That is one can see just hal way from the equator to the south pole...
...Samaritans. Pilots from the British air bases in Transjordania loaded their planes last week with dates and other comestibles which would not be injured by dropping from a height. Soaring into the zenith they flew up and down the trans-desert motor route between Beirut and Bagdad. Tourists, marooned for almost a week by floods which bogged their motor cars and washed out the railways, gazed thankfully skyward as the British air Samaritans flung man-made manna into their laps. Air Vengeance. At Bombay there was sentenced last week to "five years' rigorous imprisonment" an Arab who would...