Word: compacter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...author deals more specifically with the role of researcher and teacher. The scholars "have constructed an appealing and compact philosophical package (academic freedom), labeled it truth, and tossed it for enshrinement to the undiscriminating fellow, the liberal... he (the scholar) distends the protective cloak of research to include his activities as a teacher, thereby insuring himself license in the laboratory, which is right and proper, and license in the classroom, which is wrong and improper." Defending the rights of the majority, and assuming that Yale graduates are predominantly Christians and capitalists. Buckley further maintains that Yale must teach the ideologies...
...Later, she added regular articles on marriage problems and housing ("for they all affect children, too"), children's books (which are pretested on young readers), movies and records. Editor Littledale also keeps a supervisory finger on Parents' byproduct publications: Children's Digest, 21 (for young men), Compact (for girls), Your New Baby and Baby Care Manual (for new mothers...
...Tito and his comrades of World War II days who are now government officials, sitting on the island in bunkhouse familiarity swapping crackerbarrel jokes and war memories. Bevan pooh-poohed the idea that Tito, approaching 60 and recovering from an abdominal operation, was past his prime. "His tanned, compact figure might have been that of a man twenty years younger...
Going into its twenty-sixth year of publication, the compact pocket-size Guide compresses the opinions of this year's sophomore class on every course regularly open to Freshmen...
Returning Echoes. The heart of Ross's compact (150 Ib.) machine is a crystal of Rochelle salt† that converts electrical energy into pulses of "ultrasonic sound" (unlike radar, which uses radio frequencies). Focused into a narrow beam, the sound pulses are shot out through an underwater transmitter that can turn through 360°. Echoes from underwater objects come back to the transmitter and are displayed on one cathode-ray screen as part of a glowing map that measures distance and direction from the ship. Moving targets can be tracked across the scope as on an ordinary radar screen...