Word: compacter
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...British made a decision which was dictated by necessity; to yield almost all Malaya, saving the Australians for a compact shield of men just north of Singapore. This would stretch Japanese communications through hundreds of miles of Commando-infested jungle, shorten British communications and coastline to the defensible limits of the troops in hand...
...Furnaces are so compact that they also serve as ladles...
Attempting to organize a local chapter of the Youth Committee Against War, a nation-wide college group, the trio of Yardlings, Taylor Boggs, Arseni Karpovich, and David Heathe, call their own compact organization the Harvard Committee Against Dictatorship and Imperialism...
...than War Office huzzahs of brilliance. Up to the early summer of 1941 he had not learned to handle a large force as ably as he has repeatedly shown that he can handle a small force. When the Italians entered the war in June 1940, General Wavell had a compact little army in the Western Desert. He moved it easily and beautifully, holding off an Italian force ten times the size of his own. Gradually, as the Middle Eastern forces expanded under his feet, he floated out of depth. The bigger the force, equipment and units he had to handle...
What Los Angeles architects hoped could someday be done about all this was shown in models of compact units that included offices, homes and factories, separated by recreational greenbelts; of broad freeway highways with tunneled traffic intersections. Visitors were confronted with mural blowups of ballots, marked with an X in a space labeled "better planning...