Word: compacting
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Returning Echoes. The heart of Ross's compact (150 Ib.) machine is a crystal of Rochelle salt† that converts electrical energy into pulses of "ultrasonic sound" (unlike radar, which uses radio frequencies). Focused into a narrow beam, the sound pulses are shot out through an underwater transmitter that can turn through 360°. Echoes from underwater objects come back to the transmitter and are displayed on one cathode-ray screen as part of a glowing map that measures distance and direction from the ship. Moving targets can be tracked across the scope as on an ordinary radar screen...
...areas. Cried House Republican Leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts: "When [the President] can so flout the will of the Congress, we ... might as well shut up shop and go home." Rhode Island's Senator Theodore Francis Green, a Democrat, insisted that it was easier to build defenses for "compact industrial areas" than "scattered plants." Of the Easterners, only Massachusetts' air-minded Senator Henry Cabot Lodge had a good word for the President's order. "I know from military experience," said he, "that greater safety can be achieved in this manner...
...prizewinning bestseller, was a vivid picture of life in the starving south Italian town to which Levi was exiled by Mussolini in 1935. His second book, Of Fear and Freedom, a rambling philosophical essay on man's fate, was as diffuse and shapeless as Eboli was graceful and compact...
...Other groups joined the program, too. A reorganized and more compact Overseers' Visiting Committee on Athletics and the Varsity Club, both eyeing the "athlete" problem, pledged their aid. Even the Crimson Key formed a group of 85 undergraduates, who have already begun acting as contact men for the alumni Schools Committees...
...Other groups joined the program, too. A reorganized and more compact Overseers' Visiting Committee on Athletics and the Varsity Club, both eyeing the "athlete" problem, pledged their aid. Even the Crimson Key formed a group of 85 undergraduates, who have already begun acting as contact men for the alumni Schools Committees. Classes of 1954 at a Glance HARVARD YALE PRINCETON DARTMOUTH Number of applicants 3000 3000 3200 3500 Number in class 1150 1049 763 650 Number interviews* (approximate) 2000 2000 1800 3300 Geographical Distribution: New England 44.4% 28.4% 7.1% 33.2% Middle Atlantic 26.3 35.9 57.1 39.8 Middle West...