Word: compacted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illinois farm boy, Jackson Reynolds went west to Stanford for an education. There his 190 Ib. of compact brawn made him a fearsome halfback on the football team managed by a youth named Herbert ("Bert") Hoover. When the late great George Fisher Baker discovered him, Mr. Reynolds was teaching law at Columbia University. One of his pupils was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today the old teacher sees his prodigious pupil occasionally, but he is not rated a close Roosevelt friend...
...tuned to the oboe's A, while Brahmins found their places. All stood when Koussevitzky entered, made his calm & studied bow. When the first piece was over he did an unaccustomed thing. He grinned. To open the Boston Symphony's 54th season Koussevitzky had chosen a rich, compact passacaglia which he had written himself. Bostonians had been curious. Koussevitzky, they knew, was the world's greatest bull-fiddler. He could write sympathetically for the big bass, as Kreisler has written for the violin. For the Symphony's 50th anniversary celebration he contributed an overture. But Boston...
...when a young President finds himself faced with a large number of knotty problems. Yet it now seems hardly probable that the new council will play any significant part in the determination of college policy, for if any such body is to deliberate effectively, it must be small and compact. The very size of the old faculty meeting precluded the possibility of any valuable discussion, but this salient fact seems to have been overlooked in constituting the new council. Composed of fifty-six members of the various departments, it is in nature just as unwieldy as the institution which...
Ninth Floor. Votes-for-women is no longer an issue, but the flame of feminism burns as high as ever in Helen Reid's compact breast. Proud is she that no other metropolitan newspaper employs as many female executives. There are Mrs. Helen W. Leavitt, assistant advertising manager; Elsa Lang, promotion director; Esther Kimmel in charge of the Home Economics Department; Books Editor Irita Van Doren; Mary Day Winn, assistant fiction editor; Book Critic Isabel Paterson. And most important, presiding on the ninth floor, Marie Mattingly Meloney...
...best poem about the Century of Progress Exposition at Chicago. Poems for an occasion are many-and mostly bad. But " America Remembers," included as tailpiece to this second volume of Engle verse, is the strongest and most maturely poetic achievement in the book, a swift, glamorous and compact running commentary on 300 years of American legend. Weaving back & forth, up & down over the vistas of local mythology, it strikes a genuinely inspirational note. The first poem, ''The Last Whiskey Cup, " strikes the same note. Excerpt...