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Comforts of Home. Near Askov, Minn., a search party finally found the hunter who had packed his gear in the dark, gone into the wilds with his wife's compact instead of his compass...
Nichols, son of a well-to-do Kansas storekeeper, first learned about neat, compact towns on a trip to Europe. At Harvard he wrote a thesis on the development of raw land. In 1904, with $21,500 put up by farmers, he began to develop raw land himself at Olathe, Kans...
...restricted merchants to eleven compact areas, built them shopping centers (against rent and a percentage of gross receipts) in Spanish, Elizabethan and Colonial styles. Home builders got a choice of one of three areas (large, medium-sized or small houses), where each could build a house according to his own pocket-book-and Nichols' choice of architecture...
...Wilkes and George Bochner both serve on the Princeton Faculty. The atomic-energy-for-military-purposes report, produced by a committee including men from both sources and chaired by Smyth, who holds dual connection, typifies the scope of coordination which can exist, despite barriers of formal organization, in a compact and relatively isolated collegiate center...
...lions once flopped into a North Clark Street saloon), and one of the chief ornaments of Chicago's tiara-like lake front. The Lincoln Park Zoo is not the nation's biggest, or even its best. But it has one great advantage: it is small, compact, set off by lagoons and gently rolling lawns, and is easily accessible by foot, bus, trolley and El. Largely because of its location, it consistently outdraws Chicago's bigger, more modern Brookfield Zoo, which lies 13 miles southwest of the Loop. Even when the Cubs are as determinedly in the pennant...