Word: compression
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...student beginning German may be honestly advised to substitute German B for the spotty inefficiencies of German A. For an instructor he will have a master rather than a tyro; in subject matter he will find that the dull necessities are compressed to a tight, clear, concise does made palatable by the chocolate chicle of interesting relevancies. Further, and most important, he will compress into one year the stupid translation which occupies the unenlightened who take German A, German 1, and German 2; he will be able at the end of a year of vigorous, stimulating effort...
Newshawks found Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Senate, sick abed with a hot compress about his small brown neck. The peppery little man hunched up out of his sheets to bark: "It is not an independence bill at all. It is a tariff bill directed against our products. It is an immigration bill directed against our labor...
...Stopper" Smith. Still titular leader of the Democracy, Mr. Smith was among the first to reach Chicago last week, arriving almost a week ahead of time from his skyscraping office in Manhattan. His open purpose was to compress all non-Roosevelt factions into a solid bloc of votes to keep the New York Governor out of the nomination. Observing his activities, political experts pondered his motives. After his defeat four years ago he had said...
...less than the pressure upon things deep within the earth. Yet the man-made pressure changes the nature of elements. Thirty-nine of 48 pure metals which Professor Bridgman has squeezed become better conductors of electricity the greater the pressure. Iron becomes more rigid, glass less rigid. Zinc crystals compress seven times as much in one direction as in another. Most compressible of metals is cesium, presumably because its atom is highly complex. The greater the pressure on rocks, the greater the heat needed to melt them...
...railroads spread out and opened up almost limitless tracts of new Texas land for cotton cultivation, the State's production tripled in 20 years. In 1899 Texas was the No. 1 U. S. cotton State with 2,500,000 bales. This year its 10,000 gins will compress 5,000,000 bales or 33% of the U. S. crop...