Word: compacter
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Pajarito and his countrymen had been completely convinced by a compact (5 ft. 3 in.; 124 Ibs.) little man whose square name is Okon Bassey Asuque, Esq., M.B.E.* His ebony fists are probably the swiftest pair of weapons in the prize ring, and his Oxford-accented speech is certainly the rarest: "When I awoke the morning of the fight and saw it was raining, I actually wept. I was emotionally prepared to fight that night, and a delay would have been annoying...
...real drop of the middle-priced car has been brought about by Detroit itself. Until the 19403, the low-priced three-Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth -manufactured cheap, compact cars meant chiefly for transportation. As demand grew for wider and longer cars with more room and comfort, Detroit changed the once small cars into big ones. From 1938 to date, Chevrolet has grown two feet overall; Ford has grown four feet since 1928. Both are now bigger than the Pontiac, Packard or Oldsmobile of ten years...
...struggling painfully off the ground as liquid-fuel rockets do, the solid-fuel bird can be gone in a flash. Its higher speed while still in the dense lower atmosphere costs something in aerodynamic drag, but since solid-fuel rockets have no pumps, valves or plumbing, they are more compact and can slip through the air more easily...
...reason U.S. auto sales have leveled off for the past few years, said Romney-with a bow to his hot-selling little Rambler-is that the automobile industry as a whole has ignored "fundamental changes occurring in automobile use and demand," i.e., the increased popularity of smaller, more compact cars...
Probably nowhere in the world is there a college president quite like Frank Beu (rhymes with cue) of Western Illinois University. A skinny, owlish man of 59, he runs his compact (2,600 students) campus in Macomb (pop. 10,592) as if he, and not the state, were the owner. When he is not enjoying his paneled and well-equipped office (TV, hifi, radio, air conditioning), he is apt to be stomping about outside, shooting at pigeons with a shotgun, or scaring away stray dogs with a BB gun ("I don't see anything wrong with that. Some have...