Word: compacted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delegates to the Farmers' National Relief Conference. ¶ Heard Pennsylvania's Beck deliver a scholarly lecture on methods of amending the Constitution. ¶ Received from New York's O'Connor an amendment to the 1929 Reapportionment Act requiring all Congressional districts to be "contiguous, compact and of approximately equal population." The absence of such a provision in the present law compelled the Supreme Court last October to sustain gerrymandering in Mississippi's redistricting. ¶ Heard its first farewell speech from Georgia's "Lame Duck" Lankford. ¶ Passed District of Columbia bills to close local...
...footballers have expected for several years: disintegration of the Southern Conference. Alabama, Auburn. Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Sewanee, Tennessee, Tulane, Vanderbilt resigned, formed a new group to be called the Southeastern Conference. Reason: ". . . In our judgment the time has arrived for a more compact organization for the administration of athletics ... on geographical lines." Colleges left in the Southern Conference: Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina, Virginia. Virginia Military Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Washington...
Granting all this, there still remains the problem of the Seniors who supposedly live, eat, dance, exercise, and carry on their several activities in seven separate units; and then must select their class officers at large as if they were the compact graduating class of some small college. There is no question but that this is unavoidable in such offices as marshal, ivy orator, chorister, orator, odist, and poet. But on the other hand, there is no reason why the members of the various committees should not be chosen with one man elected by each House, especially with regard...
...conceived by a poet, who brings to prose, unconsciously perhaps, his lyric sensitiveness and intensity, is more than sufficient justification for this statement. it is a book that has elements of romanticism, realism, and humor, a combination as happy as it is rare in our time. it has a compact, simple, strong form; and a philosophic idea as its basis that ought to satisfy Mr. T. S. Eliot. On the other hand, avoiding the Joycian method of presenting every detail no matter how irrelevant, a practice apt to be boring, Mr. Hillyer achieves an impression of the fullness of life...
...Manhattan skyscraper. There last week, about to pop with excitement, he pored over galley proofs of a book he has written, to be published next month. It is called Be A News Photographer* The book is based on Author Price's theory that, with the new types of compact, lightweight, high-speed cameras, every reporter may now be his own photographer. And should be. The old World once issued handy cameras to all its newshawks (who soon lost them). So did the Journal. The practice is now coming back on the Gannett chain papers (notably in Albany and Elmira...