Word: compresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think we will have to compress theories into realities. We will have to bear in mind the inevitable human reactions of the post-war aversion to military matters, and of the taxpayers' pressure to reduce military appropriations. We will have to take the nations of the world as they are, the prejudices and passions of the people as they exist, and with those considerations, develop a method so that we can have a free America in a peaceful world...
...psychological study of a starving student who murders because he thinks he is above the laws of man, follows the novel more religiously than its companion piece. Only minor characters and actions are omitted as the French production, a morbid thriller from the first scene, is forced to compress pages of introspection into mere celluloid suggestion. The fiery-eyed Roskalnikov is forced to break down and confess his act under the shrewd handling of detective Porphyr, excellently portrayed by Harry Baur, and his prostitute-turned-saint follows him to Siberia. Pierre Blanchar, who plays Roskalnikov, may be a little...
...organic arsenic compound); 2) a ten-hour fever (106° F.) artificially induced by hot humid air while the patient lies in a coffinlike cabinet developed in part by General Motors Research Director Charles Kettering. By increasing the body's tolerance for arsenic, the fever enables doctors to compress the recently developed five-to ten-day treatment (without fever) into...
Some readers will think not. They can nevertheless read Mr. Churchill for its author's sense of history as a pageant of personalities, his eye for vivid, incongruous detail, his ability to compress masses of fact into a smooth ribbon of narrative. They can also read it to trace the development of Winston Churchill from the specious Victorian calm into which he was born, until, an old man, he put the will of a battered empire into four words: "We shall never surrender...
...rest of the program, drafted by the War Department's general staff, is not yet ready for unveiling. But it is certain that there will be a doubling of the $61,052,000,000 now appropriated for Army, Navy and Lend-Lease production, an attempt to compress the present 1942-43 program into a single year, an attempt to swing 50% of next year's national income to armaments instead of the 25% now contemplated...