Word: compressibility
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...heavy that only a powerful arm can lift them. Words burn like stars, great thoughts outlast granite mountains, but the books in which words and thoughts, are written will weary a man's hand and tear his pocket. "Condense what you write," this age has said; "compress it, synchronize it, cut it down." For borne time such reflections as these have animated the mind of Rear Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske, U. S. N., retired. Recently they have had fruit in an invention which Admiral Fiske last week revealed to an amazed public...
...hoped that Mayor Nelson was too. A month ago the publishers of the Pioneer Press invited Mayor Nelson to edit their paper for one day. He accepted. And 'the more Intelligent People hoped that he would put some foreign news in it, take the fog out of it, compress it, organize it, speed it up. Doubtless he knew a thing or two about newspaper editing or he would not have been asked to take-or accept -the post of guest-editor...
...clear that the new paper, the name of which was not vouchsafed, would be much like its Vanderbiltian predecessors. These, in their day, were modeled after the famed gum-chewers' sheetlets* of Manhattan. Compactly laid out, swathed in photographs, crowded with headlines, cluttered with "features", tabloid newspapers compress the national and international news the day with the local and incidental, expanding the latter into longer stories whenever it possesses sufficiently sensational details. The Vanderbilt papers, however, do not exploit crime am scandal as do their Manhattan prototypes. Their two most visible bents arc educational (stories of science and invention...
...compress cables and telegrams a considerable code was developed through the years. For himself he selected the cipher word 'Andes,' modestly taking the name of the second highest altitude on the earth's surface. He commonly went by the code name in office conversation. . . . Colonel George B. M. Harvey was 'Sawpit'; James Gordon Bennett came over the cable as 'Gaiter' and William R. Hearst as 'Gush.' For William J. Bryan, two code designations were used: 'Guilder' and 'Maxilla,' the latter possibly a delicate reference to jaw. Pomeroy...
...natural sciences, taught in their simple relations. But Dr. Eliot's program goes farther: it seeks to awaken the pupil's interest, to cultivate the power of seeing and describing, to teach manual dexterity and expression by word and musical note; above all, to develop individuality rather than to compress into uniformity. It is ambitious; it does not meet the plea for greater economy. But unlike the other programs, it considers the child. In the tender years when the nature of the child is expanding, when its vivid imagination is struggling for expression, the curriculum must give it elbow-room...