Word: compact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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November 11 is the anniversary of two great events in U. S. history-the Armistice, signed at Compiegne in 1918, and the Mayflower Compact, signed at sea off Provincetown...
...events of the last 15 months have made the Armistice seem less important and less worthy of a national holiday. So last week Dr. Francis Carr Stifler, editorial secretary of the American Bible Society, suggested that it would be far more appropriate to celebrate the anniversary of the Mayflower Compact this Monday...
...compact electric system serving 1,580,000 people in & around Long Beach, Calif. It has an unbroken dividend record, has covered interest charges an average of 2.79 times in the last ten years...
...right too. Twice a year, like the ladies, they get a tank car of linseed oil with which to speculate. When business is slack they retire to a game room, play ping-pong and poker on company time. All but three have relatives on Scientific's staff-a compact nepotism summed up by O. E. with parental pride: "It's a Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance payroll and never lets the ball get out of the infield...
...used to short wave to North America to be shared by Canada and the U. S. With swing bands and torch singers, brisk news and political comments, Britain Speaks (on every evening at 7:30 E.D.S.T.) is at its best when Novelist-Playwright John Boynton Priestley holds forth. Compact as a beer mug, with a voice as mellow as ancient ale, Priestley has a pronounced Yorkshire accent which falls more pleasantly on American ears than the nasal whinnys of Oxford...