Word: compact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer would be 4,333,000 at least. Opening day paid admissions last year were 128,697; opening day three weeks ago at the 1940 New York World's Fair: 191,196. Other differences between 1940's two folksy fairs: San Francisco's is more compact, its attractions are easier to get around to, and it is less pretentious, prettier. It also has less debt...
Conceived with the hope of grouping into one compact, efficient organization all students who are in favor of peace, a new drive has been started by the Student Union, which is offering a special Anti-war membership to members of the University...
...fraternal movement, as it colorfully depicts the march to Paris and the storming of the Tuileries. Louis XVI is portrayed not as a Hollywood caricature of an egotistical sot, but as the gourmandish monarch he was, with his glimmerings of intelligence and his fatal irresolution in times of crisis. Compact and clear-cut, the entire narrative is spiced with Gallic humor and fragments of eighteenth-century music...
...close neighbor and friend; they discreetly evade speculation on whether his feelings for Martha were no more than dutiful. Stanch alibiers for his military blunders, they uncritically dislike Washington's critics Jefferson, Lee, Gates, Sam Adams, the Conway Cabal, et al. But their biography is the most compact and exact thus far (with 130 pages of notes which, as usual in scholarly biographies, are frequently more interesting than the text). And they display real imaginativeness in portraying Washington as a great, human central figure against his remote 18th-Century background...
Claiming to be the most compact community within a community, the city fire headquarters on Cambridge Street, can accommodate 50 men for a period of several days. Besides a complete kitchen and dining room in the six year old building, there is also a recreational center and even a lecture hall...