Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this should be added the comment by George S. Forbes, Chairman of the Chemistry Department, who noted that "our course offerings are compact, and carefully integrated. Our teaching fellows and instructors follow the students' progress closely in the laboratories for the various courses... All department members advise their quotas of concentrators... We feel that our staff performs many of the functions of those officially designated as tutors...
...Status By DepartmentsDepartment General Tutorial Offerings CommentAnthropology Honors Juniors and Seniors NoneArchitectural Sciences Questionnaire not yet receivedAstronomy Questionnaire not yet receivedBiology None Gradual loss of younger men has resulted in "a natural death"Biochemistry Honors Juniors and Seniors Tutorial valuable for superior students, probably not for inferior onesChemistry None Compact course integration, and lab hours do work of tutorialClassics To Half of concentrators Favor unlimited tutorialComparative Philology No regular tutorial Tutorial help given "as an extra" in small departmentEconomics None Will reconsider tutorial next yearEngineering Sciences None Lab work sufficesEnglish Groups I, II, and III No increase plannedFar Eastern Languages...
...condensed its nine volumes into two, largely by jettisoning Adams' footnotes and masses of documentary matter. The product is still far from pint-sized: it runs to some 400,000 words, or twice the size of The Education. But at last the general reader may have in reasonably compact form what is acknowledged to be : 1) the standard text in its field, 2) one of the most brilliant of all U.S. histories...
...Morison reminds readers, no neat and compact affair. It was a mammoth multi-pronged attack, with the flanks about 900 miles apart. While the U.S. task force struck Morocco along the Atlantic coast, two separate Royal Navy task forces, carrying both U.S. and British troops, struck from the Mediterranean against Oran and Algiers. Ultimate success depended not only on the luck and timing of all three strikes, but upon what happened when Montgomery suddenly turned on Rommel at El Alamein. Montgomery needed tanks before he could turn. Stripping its own armored divisions, the U.S. had sent him 400 General Shermans...
...such bracero is compact, mustachioed Catalino Delgado Morales, 26. A stevedore like his father, he usually works on the United Fruit pier. About three or four days of the week his name moves high enough on the union hiring hall's list for him to get taken on. Then, togged like the rest of the gang (some 365) in old pants, shoes and T-shirt, he wallops sacks of sugar, coal, assorted cargo from 7 till 5. At week's end he may have earned...