Word: compact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Present cultural units should be preserved with the utmost care and should have full autonomy in all local affairs. This means that a country such as Switzerland, Holland or Hungary should be preserved intact with its present boundaries, unless the people themselves in compact geographical blocks desire a change. If some country, such as Belgium, is troubled by friction between two sections with different cultural systems, each of these, if it so desires, should be given autonomy. The decision should rest with the individual cultural groups. Autonomy . . . does not mean complete independence. The day for completely independent small political units...
Since the Middle Ages, the urban cell has grown out of all recognition. Its neat structure has become disorganized, its central nucleus diseased with slums, its circulation impeded by industrial growths and clotted traffic. "When a city grows compact, as when a forest grows compact," says Saarinen, "it withers...
...will highlight the third Forum lecture tomorrow night in New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock. Dr. Mead, who has made numerous trips to Samoa, New Guinea, and Bali, is an authority on the relationship between character structure and social forms and is now relating her studies on compact, stable societies to American society...
...them: 'You must go,' and if British rule ends, that moral act will save Britain and America. If they choose to remain here, they should do so as friends, not proprietors, of India. American and British soldiers may remain here, if at all, by virtue of a compact with free India...
Forming a compact group along the river are Eliot House, Kirkland House, Winthrop House, Lowell House, and Leverett House. Dunster House and Adams House are somewhat separated from the rest, as well as Dudley Hall, the commuter's center, which is on Dunster street. Weld Boathouse is on the river right by Eliot House...