Word: compacted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cosmopolitan Book Corporation has republished the essay, in book form. Now it is a compact little volume in large type, hardly any thicker than The Saturday Evening Post, about one-quarter the latter's size and retailing at just 15 times the latter's price. The book omits the two cartoons which accompanied the essay originally and lent point to its remarks about a quiet, hard-working, soft-spoken, pestered...
Lord Robert Cecil reached a private agreement with the French Government for a mutual guarantee compact, calculated to end " the myth of French militarism...
Tests made on land with the new 4,300-pound demolition bomb, carried by a Handley Page aeroplane, illustrated the power of the new weapon. Released from midair, the bomb buried itself in compact, sandy soil. A moment later the explosion threw soil almost 1,000 feet into the air and left a crater 19 feet deep, 64 feet in diameter. One thousand cubic yards of earth had been displaced...
Appearance. He is slightly under six feet in height, of a heavy, compact build, with enormously broad shoulders. His face is full and oval, his jaw " one of the squarest and most determined in the United States," with a friendly, boyish and disarming smile. His forehead is high and broad. He has a great shock of brown hair reminiscent of Bryan in his youth. He is described as " a cross between William Jennings Bryan and James J. Jeffries...
Perhaps finger-print signatures are almost as ancient as those of the cross, plain and simple. Pirate stories abound with descriptions of contracts, signed in blood by solemn imprint of the fingertip--or, more often, of the "massive thumb". Tom Sawyer's famous compact has been an inspiration to many a romantic youth. And artists, from time immemorial, have used the finger-print as a personal signature on drawings and paintings. But in spite of so honorable an ancestry, the idea of compulsory finger-prints seems to be meeting with some opposition...