Word: compacter
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...fact that his son, Roger Wolff Kahn, has organized a very successful jazz orchestra?of the respectful way in which the press is beginning to call him "America's Foremost Patron of tre Arts." Or he might have thought, not without satisfaction, of the banking career whose compact pattern knits these scattered salients. Formerly cashier in a bank in Carlsruhe, Germany, later Vice President of a German bank in London, he came to the U.S. during the panic of 1893, took a job as clerk, and in a few years was helping E. H. Harriman rehabilitate the Union Pacific...
...Rhineland security compact among Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy...
Shortly before train time, Tchitcherin again talked to Stresemann for more than an hour; delivered a last exhortation. What he said may be judged from his public utterances: "England's effort toward creating a security compact is simply a part of her insidious anti-Soviet activity. . . . England sees in Germany a mere pawn to be used against Russia... Germany must not fall into the British trap...
...among the powers (see INTERNATIONAL). If these agreements fail, the powers are likely to return to the League and to something resembling the Protocol. If they are successful, Germany will almost certainly be brought within the League, and the assistance of the League made use in administering the regional compact treaties...
...member of the Columbia University football team almost caused a riot in that institution's famous library the other day when he produced a powder compact, mirror and all, in the reading room, and proceeded to cast a cosmetic cloud over his manly countenance with the raw materials contained therein...