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Word: compacted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treatment of such arts as painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and the motion picture, is bound to be cursory in a survey so short and, compact as this, but while the expert may not be wholly satisfied by many generalizations, the general reader will find much information presented in an easily digestible form. Thus in the space at his disposal Mr. Cahill, for example, summarizes American achievement in painting and sculpture more succinctly than it has ever been summarized before (within the memory, at any rate of this reviewer). If he is too severe with Whistler, or too lenient and even...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/1/1935 | See Source »

After Jan. 1, 1938 the SEC may compel any or all registered holding companies to reorganize with an eye to simplifying corporate structures and aligning operating properties in compact integrated groups. Final liquidation must start not later than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: For Utilities | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

When Lucie Bigelow Rosen, wife of the New York banker, Walter T. Rosen '94, faces a small, compact box in the courtyard of the Fogg Art Museum tonight at 8.30 o'clock, her audience will hear strains of Debussy and Bach apparently materializing from thin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strains of Bach, Debussy Will Issue From Box As New York Woman Gesticulates Before It | 2/8/1935 | See Source »

...shaft which is manipulated by a row of dials outside. The shaft hangs over a pile of hard candies. With a little money and a lot of skill a player can so jiggle the dials that the claws will fish out of the candy a lady's compact or a silver ash tray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pin Game | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...Lost Lady"--Barbarn Stanwyck and Frank Morgan make a compact based on what they term "honesty" after he ha retrieved her lost soul. Then love comes unexpectedly and almost conquers. If you like Miss Stanwyck posturing in a variety of costumes before a variety of rich hangings and motor cars, there you are. But she remains legally chaste--likewise Miss Crawford,--which is somewhat of a disappointment...

Author: By P. A. U., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/16/1934 | See Source »

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