Word: compacter
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...constant weight on the front wheels makes a smooth ride, he said, while the absence of a hood would bring the road too close to the driver, tire his eyes. "If the air-cooled engine is generally adopted," said cautious Bob Gregorie, "It will be compact and could be placed anywhere...
...ghosts indeed, weird and touching ones. They have walked the earth ever since Waugh's famed Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, symbols of a hypercivilized, degenerate England. Put Out More Flags -perhaps their last appearance-is Waugh's peculiar genius at its best. In 300 swift, compact pages he constructs not only the funniest but also the most cruelly searching image to date of England in her latest fateful moment of history...
Defending the compact target of Britain in 1940, the R.A.F. could keep its pursuit together, use it with crushing concentration. The Luftwaffe's job of heading off attacks from the wide reaches of German-held territory was more difficult. Germany had work for its fighters on the Russian front, and the few hundred that could be spared for defense against the R.A.F. had to be scattered...
...charm for the female worker than work in an old-fashioned factory. Aircraft plants, for instance, are likely to be brand-new, one-floor, fluorescent-lighted places, with plenty of space. The atmosphere is air-conditioned and stimulating -signs, flags, mottoes, charts exhort speed and more speed. Machinery is compact, beltless, quiet. And management constantly concerns itself with worker morale...
...sensitive phonograph pickups. Astatic Microphone was still more surprised to find out that Du Pont engineers were putting the phonograph needles not on phonograph records but against factory fences, relaying the wires' vibrations to amplifiers. So Asiatic's engineers redesigned their pickups to make them more compact and weatherproof. Du Pont last fortnight announced the result: fences (equipped with five pickups to the mile) which can catch a wren's song or the sighing wind, and relay the sounds to a watchman five miles away. These pastoral effects, however, are usually filtered out; what the pickups...