Word: compressive
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...most ambitious project was Robert Montgomery's Portrait of a Man, which struggled to compress into less than an hour the life and times of Albert Einstein. Properly despairing of trying to explain E=mc2 to his audience, Producer Montgomery tried instead to build up a lovable Mr. Chips. He failed, largely because the camera never showed anything but the back of Einstein's head and because the human-interest anecdotes (Einstein flusters a colleague's wife by telling her how to cook calf's liver; Einstein flusters the parents of a little girl by doing...
...issue of apathy versus commitment which appears here is important and provocative--especially, as the editors seem fully aware, in the context of the Harvard community. Goodman's article unfortunately verges on the hodge-podge; he has tied to include and compress too much, and the result, although tantalizing, is not satisfactory in toto...
...Manhattan by Avco Manufacturing Corp. Designed by Austrian-born Dr. Anselm Franz, who built Nazi Germany's (and the world's) first mass-produced jet engine, the new turbine works on the "free power" principle. The conventional turboprop engine drives both the propeller and machinery used to compress air for combustion; hence, no matter what throttle setting, the shaft must always be kept turning fast enough to keep the compressors working. In Franz's turbine, the two functions are independent; one turbine drives the propeller, a second powers the compressors, lowering fuel consumption and increasing the plane...
...business background. After a hard-knocks youth, he went to work in 1923 for Anderson, Clayton & Co., big U.S. cotton merchants, as a cotton weigher at $110 a month. He moved up fast. "In 1938," he recalled, "I was sent to Brazil to manage the company's cotton compress at São Paulo. On the way down by boat, I happened some way to sit at the captain's table. He was an Englishman, an' he took to ridin' me pretty hard until one night I says to him, Captain, if you mean that...
Triple-Threat Engine. A four-wheeled gas engine with attachable units to generate electricity, pump water and compress air (for spraying paint, insecticides, etc.) has been put on the market by Master Mechanic Manufacturing Co. of Burlington, Wis. Price...