Word: compacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan, introduced by a special legislative commission last March, proposes a New England compact which would organize a regional medical and dental school training program. Under the compact, schools would receive from the New England states the financial difference between tuition of the New England residents accepted at the schools and the cost to the university of an expanded program...
...Evans plan resulted from a two year survey made by a special Massachusetts Legislature Commission. The group's original aim was to organize a state medical school, but after study the committee felt that the Compact Program was more practical. The Senate Monday defeated a last-minute effort for a Massachusetts School of Medicine by a voice vote...
...Yachting Audar. A compact communications and navigation aid for small ships has been developed by Manhattan's Radio Industries Corp. Working on the same principles as echo-ranging radar, but sending out high-pitched "beeps" of sound instead of pulses of electrical energy...
...editorials varied. For example, the New York Tribune: "If poisonous gases can be used in warfare, the way is opened to a general relapse to ancient methods of savagery." The Washington Post: ". . . Since all the nations at war have violated some compact or other . . . suffocation by gas is as decent a method of murder as blowing up trenches by mines, torpedoing a vessel or dropping bombs from an airship...
Composer Copland turned in a compact (95 minutes), clean-scrubbed score. The opera's melodic high point was an eight-minute love duet. Elsewhere, Copland managed to give a fairly musical lift to such prosy lines as "Not for me, Mrs. Moss. I've already had three helpings." By the supporting fullness of his orchestra, he also made the singers' voices sound warmer than they do in most contemporary opera. But his music slid too easily from one cool harmony to another, and on the whole, held as little punch as the libretto. When it was over...