Word: compacted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These three railroads, all serving the same territory, all carrying the same type of goods, would form a compact southwestern system worth half a billion dollars. Mr. Loree, Chairman of both the K. C. Southern and the "Katie" would be enabled to save vast sums in operating costs and in financing. But, were the roads merged, they would lose their apparent and precious competitive aspect. That would be against the public interest and warranted, with other factors, disapproval...
...unattainable tranquility that intellectual and physical isolation partly affords. Walking in the quiet hill-wood he meets a salamander, and this abrupt intrusion shatters the entity of stillness, and suddenly there is a alarming multiplication of yellow and black terrors. There is his constant desire for the compact miniature, a reality which shall be in his power to encompass, robbed of the hostility of bigness. "Salzburg lay changed beneath them the castle was as tiny as a chessman the tossing shapes of the Baroque Kollibien Kirche so frightening from his windows seemed quaint and harmless here." And there...
Such technicalities, however, cannot mar the excellence of the book as a whole. Its compact size, its wide variety--and the fine Essay on Poetry which Professor Gay has prefixed to his choices, should make it one of the most popular books of its type. As a collection of English and American verse from the Middle English period to the present time it is the best small book yet published...
...action takes place in a sort of freak and side show in Vienna, and is compact and admirably simple...
...interests and by them laid before the Government in. good faith as proving close cooperation between the Mexican Government and the Government of Soviet Russia; 2) a set of "evidence" sold to prominent U. S. Roman Catholics and purporting to prove that a nefarious compact exists between the Ku Klux Klan and the Mexican Government...