Word: compact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution provides that states may make compacts or agreements with one another provided Congress ratifies them. Best example is the compact setting up the Port of New York Authority which links New York and New Jersey together with four bridges and the Holland Tunnel. As a State Senator, Mr. Toll served in the negotiations for the Colorado River Compact which was to divide water power and water rights from Boulder Dam among seven Western states. He soon learned that states seldom agree, because they have no machinery for negotiation. The Colorado River Com pact was ten years in the making...
...Mexican War. By the time the Civil War started he had settled down in the paymaster department. His experience and his massive self-confidence started him off in the Confederate Army as a brigadier-general. "Six feet tall, broad as a door, hairy as a goat," Longstreet was compact of ambition and stubbornness. The first summer's campaign showed that he was a first-rate defensive fighter but unaggressive and slow on the attack...
Besides these developments in the internal situation the policy of the Crimson with regard to other colleges has changed materially. Harvard was once a firm believer in the principle of the Munroe doctrine and refused to enter any league, compact, or agreement. At present Harvard is a league competitor in almost every sport...
...been noticing a gleam in the Old Woman's eyes for some time," he confided. "She watches me as I shave, as I light my pipe, as I tie my tie; she hangs around me all the time and keeps glancing into her compact mirror, starting at her profile on the side that doesn't show the huge wen on her nose, patting the stringy mass of gray hair that is left on the top of her head. Poor thing! She seems worried every time I go out. As a matter of fact she's taken to hiding my cane...
...have heard much of special interest and of lobbying, but the greatest and most effective of all lobbies--those maintained by the various veterans' associations--by some special dispensation escape labelling and the halls of Congress ring with cheers for their agents. The reason, of course, lies in their compact organization and vote-control. They come, not as petitioners with a legitimate interest to defend, but as tyrannical over-lords, to demand, and receive, great portions of the nation's substance. But when Congress kowtows to orders from bonus headquarters, the public should at least be spared the hypocritical mouthings...