Word: compressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-range radiation rays, says Menzel, which usually fly off from the earth, would be stopped by the cloud and retained. Thus the weather would be come warmer, the proper weather for an ice age. More water would evaporate from the earth and fall at the poles as snow, compress itself into ice and start moving as a glacier...
...cannot commend to your generation the philosophy of my own. What I propose in its stead I can compress in this phrase: 'Be an active, living part of your times...
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...