Word: compact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lines and the Line. The Memorial's neoclassic lines, drawn by the late John Russell Pope, are out of tune with the times. From afar, it appears compact, forbidding, lonely as a mausoleum. From hard by, it is too huge, too white, too coldly monotonous. Yet it will stand as a great national monument, for inside is the spirit of a great...
...more I drink better I feel, neither does it make me drunk, when a Boy a horn of Beer before Breakfast was the foundation for the day." Of such plums, and many a pebbly fact and figure, Mass-Observation's report on Bolton's pubs is compact...
...transport, the Army has a more compact unit which can be carried in three small cases and is mercifully speedy in use: determinations usually take about 40 seconds...
...thrown on one of the most important, least understood U.S. laws. The renegotiation law was passed by Congress last April to govern the process whereby the Army & Navy regularly negotiate their war-production contracts over & over again to prevent excessive war profits. In the spotlight was a lucid, compact 19-page report by the Senate's hard-working Tru man Investigating Committee. The report lambasted the four price boards (Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Treasury) for "confusion [and] too much secrecy," and suggested improvements...
Madame Chiang had been fingering her compact. Only those standing in the first few rows could see her as she arose; the jeweled wings of her China Air Force pin sparkled against the background of her long, black dress. She had never been afraid on visits to the front in China, she said; she was not so sure now as she saw the pencils flashing across the notebooks and copy-paper. "But I see flashes of smiles coming from your faces, so I feel I am among friends. . . ." The correspondents applauded. She was now in their hands...