Word: compacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Best of all was compact (6 ft. 1 in., 205 lbs.) Don Bosseler. All afternoon he sprayed Northerners about the landscape, and in 28 tries logged 189 yards from scrimmage-a performance that gave Losing Coach Joe Kuharich considerable consolation. For Bosseler, the man who beat him, had already been drafted by Kuharich's Washington Redskins...
...equipment now in ships and planes and many of the Navy's newest weapons would be impossible." Miniaturized computers, radar sets, fire-control mechanisms and radios are the heart of every U.S. jet bomber and fighter. Today's war planes are controlled by little black boxes so compact that to service a unit, Air Force mechanics simply remove the box, install...
However, the present arrangement is such a compact student-faculty unit that any increase in enrollment, however small it might be, would be very expensive. Because of this, Dean Greep explained that when the School did expand it would do so "all at once." He guessed that the enrollment would increase along the order of magnitude of "two times its present enrollment...
...scribbled notebook of adolescence-could put himself above and beyond society by the successful commission of a pointless crime. They burned sheds, robbed fraternity houses, cheated at cards; and their IQs were among the highest in all the Midwest. Murder would really prove their superiority. So they made a compact to murder...
...battle for Manhattan" is not the most glorious chapter in U.S. history. But as Author (The Wonderful Writing Machine) Bliven has pieced it together, with the help of period prints and maps showing the fighting in terms of today's streets and landmarks, his compact and lively book may be just the handy companion for cliff-dwelling strollers ready to look for history under the sidewalks of New York...