Word: compacter
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...Compact, "The Pocket Magazine for Young Moderns" becomes the latest in a lengthy list of magazines to survey immorality on the American campus with an article, "What About College Morals?," in its March issue...
After Joachim von Ribbentrop was hanged as a Nazi war criminal in 1946, his widow Anneliese (nee Henkell) produced a legal compact that Henkell & Co. had been nudged into signing in 1942-when ex-Champagne Salesman von Ribbentrop was at the height of his power as Hitler's Foreign Minister. It stipulated that, if she requested it, son Rudolf would be appointed manager after he had worked for the firm two years...
...dreamlike calm finally broke. Delora Mae burst into tears after a jail, attendant discovered a legend she had scratched on her compact with the point of a bobby-pin, while sitting in her cell: "Delora Mae Campbell killed Donna Joyce Isbell Sat. nite...
...Burmah-Shell. In return the three outfits would promise to train Indian technicians, employ as much Indian labor as possible, and stimulate Indian industries. By 1955 the companies hope to have three oil refineries worth $100 million, producing two to three million tons of refined products a day. A compact advantageous to both parties, it is also welcome as the first major investment of private U.S. capital in India since India won its independence...
...cobalt bomb is 25 times as powerful as the world's biggest radium units (one at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital, the other in Belgium), and yet so compact that its rays are easily focused on a small area of the patient's body. And Cobalt 60 is cheap: $17,200 for London's healing metal, whereas the radium equivalent could cost $25 million...