Word: compacter
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...skip over years in a sentence; but while a film can dismiss time, it cannot expand it or hold it back to examine it in many facets. "A novel has three tenses, a film has only one." Perhaps the most important part of the book is the highly compact and abstruse discussion of the nature of time in the two media, and the difference between "psychological" and "chronological" time...
Says American Motors President George Romney, who believes that his compact, "commonsense" Ramblers will find a niche for themselves among Detroit's ever-longer, ever-lower luxury models: "The automobile is no longer the means of satisfying the ego of the American. The consumer is turning to swimming pools and boats and trips to Europe and a lot of other things besides automobiles...
Most notable are the Spring and Fall weekends which have long enjoyed an almost national fame for their intense concentration of sex and liquor into a compact and often uninterrupted 48-hour span...
...Union of New York, and with $46,000 raised in the U.S. and France, built a church on the Rue de Berri, off the Champs Elysees. "The services are to be Christian, simply and purely Christian," he wrote at the church's founding. "Except by a violation of compact, the chapel we are erecting can never become exclusively devoted to the forms of any one sect...
...compact has remained inviolate; members of all races (the church was desegregated at the close of the Civil War) and all major Protestant denominations have worshiped in Dr. Kirk's church (except, as a rule, Episcopalians, who usually go to one of Paris' Anglican churches or to the Episcopalian American Cathedral), in 1931 Dr. Joseph Cochran. a Presbyterian (now 90 and on hand for last week's celebrations), replaced the Rue de Berri church with a large Gothic church and a five-story community house on the Quai d'Orsay. When Presbyterian Williams took over...