Word: compacted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compact was hardly made before it was attacked in the Senate by the same group which attacked the Italian debt settlement. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri was particularly vigorous. He subjected Senator Smoot to a grilling examination on how the agreement was arrived at. He fiercely attacked the conduct of the American commission in making the agreement...
...short, I found in the Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates a practice of taking and generously judging, each according to his merit as a man, which approaches closely to the ideal of social attitude and conduct, and I believe that the compact solidarity of the college is responsible for this whole-some condition. I am of opinion, therefore, that there exists a strong case for dividing the Harvard undergraduate body into compact and wieldy groups, and, by necessary implication, making academic residence, so far as possible, a condition of membership in a college or group...
...great educators to determine. Already there are signs of a drift toward English methods in dealing with the question. The two great English Universities represent more centuries of educational evolution than most of our own have dared to contemplate. Even a generation ago, Harvard University was a compact and easily handled college, a veritable cultural unit, compared with what it is now. The suggestion of the Student Council is at least well worthy of careful study...
...Premier replied: "From France's rights, nothing has been taken by the compact. We can arm as much as we like without let or hindrance from the Locarno treaty...
...rhythm. The concentric ovals of their yolks and whites, the fecund chromes bewitched to a dark gold, haunt his dreams with the memory of a beauty marvelous and fugitive. To satisfy the demands of that memory, he painted them, the fried eggs of his dream, in a form as compact as a concerto?a form that leaves upon the mind of the beholder a sensation as definite as that caused by a series of musical chords. They smile down forever from his rich canvas?the Cosmic Egg cooked at last, the fried ova of eternity. This celebrated picture has been...