Word: compacter
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...hold court there. Harvey likes to sit facing the walls-they are all made of mirrors. Thus his eyes, narrow as oriental slits, can see everybody who's there, including himself, and he can smooth his light brown hair without going into Joan's purse for a compact...
West Germany's Volkswagens came beetling into the U.S. auto market a decade ago, and started the compact trend. U.S. automakers managed to fight off the trend by joining it. Now they are fighting back on Volkswagen's home ground and challenging VW's lead as West Germany's fastest selling car by appealing to the German yen for more luxurious autos. In 1963's first nine months, VW's share of the burgeoning West German market dropped from 33% to 28%, while General Motors hiked its share from...
...anti-cancer drugs into arteries or veins is usually necessary, requiring a stay of days or weeks in a hospital, at great economic and emotional cost to the patient. But now, Dr. Elton Watkins Jr., inventive director of surgical research at Boston's Lahey Clinic, has devised a compact, clockwork-driven pump that weighs only three-fourths of a pound and can be hung on the patient's chest like a hearing aid. Inside Dr. Watkins' contraption, a plastic reservoir contains about an ounce of anti-cancer drug, usually Methotrexate. The clock motor and pump...
...challenge. The hosts were, by immutable tribal lore, much more severely restricted and as a result, somewhat at a disadvantage. Here, the girls of marriageable age were, by time honoured edict, by a veritable law of the Medes and Persians which changed not, segregated and formed into a compact mass, separate and distinct, "of" but not "in," the ranks of the general audience...
...spoor of Esoterica hangs over the afternoon courses. Math. 224, for example, dallies over "Topics in the Theory of Compact Riemann Surfaces"; while Portuguese 200 elucidates Portuguese linguistics, and includes a survey of Portuguese literature up to 1500. At hours to be arranged Akkadian 230 will dwell on elementary Akkadian. Indian Studies 122a will exhume elementary classical Tibetan...