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Word: compacting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their script Jerry Wald and Michael Curtiz, producer and director respectively, have adapted an incident from Ernest Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not." They have sacrificed nothing in the transition: the dialogue retains all of Hemingway's sharpness, and his simple, compact plot is still as clear and as interesting as ever...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/4/1950 | See Source »

...senior Senator, Styles Bridges, who is no friend of Tobey's. Last November, Republican Powell announced he was out to beat Tobey. He set up campaign headquarters in the pantry of his Hampton Falls home. He had the encouragement and the help of Styles Bridges' compact New Hampshire political organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Scourge of the Rascals | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

Fiery Tipple. The history of the family of Lord Littlehampton's friend, Poet Jeremy Tipple, is also a compact history of British literary taste. It ends on a magnificently acid note with an account of the devoted leftist, Bill Tipple, a conscientious objector in the late war until the German invasion of Russia jolted him into joining the Drayneflete section of the National Fire Service. Bill Tipple is currently organizing secretary of the World Congress of International Poets in Defense of Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: This Other Eden | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...editorial said: "Mr. Buckley's broadcast is running as a "Crime" because it manages to advocate, in a compact 15 minutes, most of the bad things that could happen to American education. . . It calmly calls for student indoctrination, one-sided curricula, and alumni regulation of what a University may teach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 6/22/1950 | See Source »

...Buckley's broadcast is running as a Crime because it manages to advocates, in a compact 15 minutes, most of the bad things that could happen to American education. It calmly calls for student indoctrination, one-sided curricula, and alumni regulation of what a University may teach, all carefully wrapped up as a "responsibility to guide students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Buckley of Yale' | 6/7/1950 | See Source »

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