Word: compacter
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...high desk was the other piece of office furniture. There he did most of his work, standing. When he wasn't standing he paced, slowly and deliberately-a compact man with grey-streaked hair, long, thin nose and blue gimlet eyes...
Proud Corps. In Washington, compact, 48-year-old Brigadier General Louis Woods, who bosses the Corps's air arm, smoked his usual 14 cigars a day last week and worked diligently at his desk in a corner of the Navy Building. He had seen Cunningham's division of five officers and 30 men grow into an organization which embraces almost one-fourth of the Corps's entire personnel. Over its size and its quality Marines pop their buttons with pride...
With Moderator Ferdinand Q. Blanchard's letter went the Congregational Christian Compact for World Order, 1944. It was patterned after the Mayflower Compact of 1620, in which the Pilgrims pledged themselves to work for a new world of freedom. At a special service, which will be held in their churches on May 21, Congregationalists will sign the 1944 Compact. From all over the U.S. the signed Compacts will go to Grand Rapids, where they will be dedicated during the biennial General Council (June 25). The Compact: "In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, loyal members...
...help their Compact accomplish something, the million U.S. Congregationalists are asked to write their Senators and delegates to Party conventions, telling them that Congregationalists (like Methodists and Baptists, who are conducting similar drives) want "a world reorganization which will justify the price of victory...
...ambitious films in years. It begins with a close-up of a foundering ship's funnel that might stand for the end of an era. Then the camera closely meditates a dissolving frieze of floating debris, and lifts its eye to frame, in the light of predawn, its compact symbol of our time: a damaged boat, its compass smashed, its sole occupant a trullish photojournalist who has lived through so much that she calls herself "practically immortal." Further survivors clamber aboard, masked and anonymous with floating oil. As the little boat gets moving, the film suggests Poet...