Word: compact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass psychology from the time of the publication of "Newes from Virginia" in the early days of James-town to that of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Renascence" guarantees only an historical study useful to research students. But the great value of a collection and of all these compact little volumes of the Oxford series is in furnishing a handy reference to subject matter which the general reader wants to pursue once more...
...charge of this project was a compact, wirehaired, effective native Washingtonian just 40 whose name, after 16 years in the Government service, has lately emerged as a household word, Director John Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. With an appropriation of $50,000 and an enthusiastic waiting list. Director Hoover decided: "First we'll crawl. Maybe after that we'll walk, maybe run, maybe fly." By rigid adherence to this careful program of crawling, walking, running and flying Director Hoover has built in the past decade one of the finest, most efficient law enforcement agencies the world...
...must record his gratitude to Dr. Simmons for making the first extensive study ever to be published in English of the literary relations between England and Russia. A further vote of thanks is due the author for having compressed no small amount of recondite facts into a compact volume, written in a clear, readable style of exposition which might well serve as a model for subsequent treatises in comparative literature. Only a person as learned as Dr. Simmons will be able, of course, to measure nicely how much compression has taken place; the general reader's gauge must...
...Army has spent some $100,000 perfecting the Kruesi Compass, has made it a compact unit which weighs less than 45 lb., fits in a small box. Patent rights are owned by the U. S. Government, manufacturing rights by Fairchild Aviation Corp., which paid Inventor Kruesi a modest advance royalty. Last week the Fairchild factory at Woodside, L. I. was working day & night to fill an Army order for 500 Kruesi Compasses. From this $150,000 order, Inventor Kruesi will receive not one penny. Reason: He is a Government employe, may not profit from Government expenditures...
Died. Roger Harrington Bullard, 50, architect; of pneumonia; in Plandome, N. Y. He designed country clubs and socialite country houses, won a gold medal in 1933 in a Better Homes in America competition, with a 1½-story cottage which a jury found "admirable, compact, convenient, well lighted and well aired." He planned the model ''America's Little House" which currently stands in Manhattan at the corner of Park Avenue and 39th Street...