Word: compacter
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...level.* The few ravines dividing the plain are knee-deep brooks. There are no forests such as help to screen Moscow. The Nazis had merely to cross the plain between two rivers. Sprawling along the Volga for 25-miles, Stalingrad's shoestring outline provides not even a compact area to defend. A break-through at any point could cut the defending forces...
...long will this go on? Ten thousand billion years more, says the University of Chicago's astrophysicist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, whose book, Principles of Stellar Dynamics, has just been published (University of Chicago Press; $5). Beginning with a compact, enormously dense mass of some eight billion degrees Centigrade (TIME, June 1), the Milky Way galaxy has been expanding for three billion years, will continue to expand for at least 9,997 billion more. By then it should be completely relaxed, the stars will all have the same velocity, and will begin to slip away from the galaxy like molecules...
...Continental has about 10,000 employes, it is the No. 1 maker of 440 h.p. air-cooled radial tank engines, ships thousands of them each month to Chrysler, American Locomotive, other tank builders. At another plant, workers piece together hundreds of 275-h.p. radials for training planes, scores of compact "Red Seal" engines for trucks, busses, mining equipment. Reese spent $3,100,000 on betterments last year, is spending $700,000 this year. Meanwhile he is hard at work testing a huge, 2,000-h.p. liquid-cooled engine designed for the mammoth cargo planes now planned by many U.S. aircraft...
...Present cultural units should be preserved with the utmost care and should have full autonomy in all local affairs. This means that a country such as Switzerland, Holland or Hungary should be preserved intact with its present boundaries, unless the people themselves in compact geographical blocks desire a change. If some country, such as Belgium, is troubled by friction between two sections with different cultural systems, each of these, if it so desires, should be given autonomy. The decision should rest with the individual cultural groups. Autonomy . . . does not mean complete independence. The day for completely independent small political units...
Since the Middle Ages, the urban cell has grown out of all recognition. Its neat structure has become disorganized, its central nucleus diseased with slums, its circulation impeded by industrial growths and clotted traffic. "When a city grows compact, as when a forest grows compact," says Saarinen, "it withers...