Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...David Yu). During the Japanese war a compact, precise little Harvard Ph.D. ran Free China's small-arms factories, made them the best-administered of all Government agencies. Dr. Yu's reward was Nanking's toughest job: restoration of railroads wrecked by eight years of invasion and civil war. Given the rank of general, Dr. Yu runs his Communications Ministry like a military chief of staff, keeps detailed "phase charts" of his repair offensives. A scholar and administrator rather than a politician, he is generally respected (even by the Reds whose saboteurs persistently blow up his rails...
Walking Up. Le Corbusier suggests a "vertical garden city" consisting of tall, compact buildings surrounded by nature. He plans for everything, from freeing "the housewife from her daily servitude" to the Assembly's "Hall of Lost Footsteps" (lobby) to his favorite project: a world museum, shaped like a pyramid. "One can go up on foot outside following the roof arranged as a road, the spiral mounting to the top. ... I have never been considered a great romanticist. However, I can well imagine two opponents of Assembly or Council room starting the road leading to the top . . . they discuss...
Part one of the inner circle's secrets is Chief Boston, or Clarence as he was known at birth. Chief claims no compact with the fates, no Demosthenesian tongue between the halves or elsewhere--but the inspiration is there nonetheless, and it starts with the coach. Boston is a player's coach, a believer in teaching by doing, and a teacher who knows...
Built by Beer. Few cities, in Mexico or out, have grown up so compact and self-centered as Monterrey. That is due in part to the cool, clear spring water that caused Don Diego de Montemayor and twelve followers to pitch camp in the hot mountain valley on Sept...
...from Ziegfeld glorification on Broadway to toothpowder riches (Dr. Lyon's, inherited from her late second husband Paul Owen Richmond), lost her purse in a Hollywood nightclub. The purse's contents: a diamond-studded gold cigaret lighter, a diamond-studded gold cigaret holder, a diamond-studded gold compact, a diamond-studded gold lipstick-&-perfume set, a diamond-studded pillbox, a solid gold scratch pad and pencil, a diamond-&-gold coin purse, a diamond-studded gold money clip, $500 in cash, and 40 solid gold keys. But no tooth powder...