Word: compact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover deserves much credit for the completion of the Seven-state compact which made the construction possible...
...choice for 1932. a year not notable for spectacular achievement, as 1933 will be for 40% increase of airline speeds, for development of a "silent" transport plane (Curtiss Condor) and possible perfection of blind landing facilities. The committee might have considered the Curtiss company's production of a compact fighting plane to be carried aboard Navy airships. Or any of several companies for perfection of a controllable-pitch propeller. Or the Department of Commerce for its network of radio beacons which was in complete daily use last year. The committee chose none of those but turned to Glenn...
...themselves, at which information could be exchanged, and at which the opinions of upperclassmen on the courses they had taken might be aired. The Advisers might make it their business to probe the mere esoteric regions of the courses and fields under their jurisdiction. In any case, a more compact and well-informed organization is needed to care for the Freshmen in the future; until this can be accomplished by paying Advisers for their services, steps along the lines suggested should be taken...
Into the lobby of Rockefeller Center's towering RCA Building last week stalked Rental Manager Hugh Robertson, followed by twelve uniformed guards. The procession halted before a huge (63 ft. by 17 ft.) unfinished fresco on the wall facing the doors. Its bright colors and hard, compact figures filled the lobby like a parade. On scaffolding before it stood a big, drooping man with a gloomy face and sad Mexican eyes: Diego Rivera, the world's foremost living fresco painter. A guard called to Rivera to come down from his scaffold. He laid down his big brushes...
...robot was presented again, this time by United Air Lines. Two years of practice had given it the feather-touch of the expert pilot. Instead of jerking the controls by direct mechanical force, the new robot eases them by hydraulic and pneumatic action. Also it is lighter and more compact than the old robot, since it utilizes the same gyroscopes that actuate the artificial horizon and directional gyros on the instrument board. It weighs 75 Ibs., occupies a box about 1 ft. square...