Word: compact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected that the Berliner-Joyce Co. will be developed similarly to the compact, conservative, painstaking Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica. Calif., whose trademark on aircraft is coming to be regarded as the equivalent of "Sterling" on silver...
MEYER, Swiss master-writer of the late nineteenth century, combined delicacy of art with a decisive, compact handling of his historical subjects that is all too often lacking in German authors, especially when they find the whole vista of a past civilization spread before them. Meyer is rarely discursive; he possesses startling dramatic sense, a passionate feelings for the great individual; these a translation can reproduce, but the perfection of style that marks the original it was not in the power of Professor Hauch to give again in his translation. It is to his credit that he has captured...
...reorganization will result in a shake down of inflated assets and liabilities, in a smaller, more compact pyramid. "Besco" will yield its supremacy to a new company. Dominion Steel & Coal Corp., which will absorb some of the old companies, control others. Its shares will probably be listed on the New York Stock Exchange where "Besco" has been an unpopular ''dog," selling below $5 a share...
...past, other classes have found these affairs dull and wholly valueless as far as their supposed purpose of promoting class spirit goes. The Junior Prom met a similar fate, and few regretted the lost ball and brawl. These vanishing traditions of a Harvard that was once united and compact will not be missed. New traditions, more natural and more spontaneous, will no doubt spring from the smaller and more easily handled units of the House Plan...
...national poll now in full swing, and the recent 82-61 vote of the New York Assembly supporting the Cuvillier bill petitioning Congress to call a Constitutional convention to repeal the unlovely Amendment have served, for the first time, to bring together under the same tent definite and compact opinion on the liquor question from three distinct elements in the Republic...