Word: compressive
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None of these, nor any combination of these, will serve the enemy for more than a limited time. But to compress the limits on that time will require the expenditure of American and Allied effort out of all proportion to the book strength of the enemy...
...changes due to wartime acceleration. The tutorial system especially, which was predicated upon four academic years of college residence or a total of eight terms so as to permit a large measure of independent study, was bound to feel the stress and strain of the changes necessary to compress it into six or seven terms. Prior to the war only about 1 or 2 per cent of the degrees were awarded for less than four years of study. Now the situation has been reversed and it is the four-year degree that is the exception...
...siege. They had dug in for months. But in the center, the First was edging on to the plain of Tunis. If the hills beside it could be cleared-and some of them were cleared last week-then the Allies could eventually sweep to Tunis, divide or further compress the defenders, and drive the remnants into...
...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...