Word: compacter
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...ship in the air over land, the crew would have slipped into parachutes suspended in the cabin like oldtime fire-horse harness, pulled a lever that unpinned the door hinges, kicked their way to freedom. Floating down with them, attached to each 'chute, would have been a compact parcel containing 30 days' rations, water, a hunting knife, fishing tackle, a first-aid kit and snakebite remedy...
...Battle, a far better book than Mr. Sheean's last novel, Sanfelice, is compact and tightly organized instead of sprawling and discursive. But having acknowledged the historical unimportance of the victory, Mr. Sheean's triumph with A Day of Battle sometimes resembles the triumph of the French at Fontenoy...
...many a run-of-the-mine U. S. politician, Franklin Roosevelt is a phenomenon as overpowering and unpredictable as lightning. But bald, compact Banker Herbert Henry Lehman, who served under Franklin Roosevelt as lieutenant governor of New York from 1929 to 1933, and succeeded him in Albany when he went to the White House, has yet to be overpowered by his old friend Frank. Since Governor Lehman saw fit to attack the President's Court Plan last year, he has become an increasingly candid friend. Last week, independent Governor Lehman abruptly swept some of the Administration's political...
...easy to win them: "All you do is put in more columns than anybody else." But there are no columns in the Wheaton art centre. What led the judges to decide on Hornbostel and Bennett was the simplicity of their design, one of the most compact in the competition; their understanding of financial, operating and teaching problems. The finished art centre will be fan-shaped, snuggling naturally to the contours of its location. Candidly dissatisfied with the appearance of the building, the judges picked Hornbostel and Bennett on the strength of their ground plan, contemplated many changes before...
...which automatically cut proration figures 16%. Simultaneously the Oklahoma Corporation Commission issued an emergency order cutting allowables for the rest of May 81,000 barrels daily to 405,000. Kansas set May daily allowables at 160,000 barrels though at the week end the other States in the Interstate Compact had not yet followed suit...