Word: compact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Water. Arizona, dissatisfied over water rights, has held out from the Boulder Dam compact. Last week at Reno, Nev., water commissioners from the six other interested states* met to evolve a compromise with Arizona, which has threatened otherwise to hamstring the whole development by prolonged litigation. At this Reno conference, California made new concessions to Arizona...
Although the highest tablelands and slopes of western Newfoundland have had no recent glacial cap, some of them are today not very far removed from a local glacial condition. Practically every summer, compact snowbanks lie on the northern-facing slopes; and it is evident that, by a very slight reduction of the mean annual temperature these snowfields would be transformed into alpine glaciers...
Organizing the students into a more compact group and promoting democracy, along with the installation of a tutorial system similar to that at Oxford is the primary purpose of the House Plan...