Word: compact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little Waves from Overseas. To produce a compact instrument, small enough to be carried in a plane, that would handle the enormous power nee:'ed (surpassing that of the most powerful radio station), required a revolution in radio...
...linguistically the most interesting. Here for the first time is a popular medium of information whose editors are using the language boldly and freely . . ." TIME'S editors will tell you there is really no such thing as "TIME style"-that what people call TIME style is simply compact, functional newswriting. With much to tell in a few minutes of a reader's time, the language of TIME has to be direct and vivid...
Some day in the not-so-distant future, housewives may turn into ladies of leisure: they may have a trim, prefabricated power plant to do most of their house work. Dr. John J. Grebe, head physicist of Dow Chemical Co., has blueprinted a compact, 3,500-lb. unit which will cook, wash the dishes, wash, dry and iron clothes, freeze food and provide all bathroom facilities. The whole unit, says Grebe, is only a little bigger than an automobile and will sell for about the same price...
...army the American liaison advisers live in compact groups of 20 or 30, attached to each army headquarters with their own messes and own company to shield off loneliness. But in the old army and lower down the highway, an American unit consists of four to ten men, a couple of gasoline drums, the ubiquitous jeep, a radio, and 20 to 30 cases of dehydrated rations...
...Bernhard is working to transform the Dutch Resistance forces into a compact, mobile army for use in liberating The Netherlands East Indies. He has surrounded himself with bright young Resistance men & women. One of his secretaries is a Communist. Except for his personal aide, all of his group are commoners. His popularity had kept pace with his political growth. Dutch citizens now line the streets and cheer when his custom-built Alfa-Romeo whizzes by. In an Amsterdam theater recently the audience kept him on his feet, pumping hands and talking, until...