Word: compact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia's new studies in "History, Aesthetic and Technique of the Motion Pictures." Most searching of these was Columbia's, listed in the University catalog as "Fine Arts em1-em2," conducted by Film Librarians Abbott & Barry with Paul Rotha, British documentarian, and invited technicians. Also most compact, it started off last week with 38 selected students...
...Basenji is a smallish, chestnut-brown African dog, sturdy, compact and bony. Catlike, it slinks, catlike washes its face with its paws. The name means ''bush thing." Unique characteristic of the Basenji is that it does not bark; it utters only one noise, "GROOO!" Breeders be lieve its lineage can be traced back to the Twelfth Egyptian Dynasty. Since then countless generations of Africans, legend says, have succeeded in breeding out its bark, for the sake of silence not in the home but on the hunt...
...when smoothing the way for the Union Pacific Railroad, the U. S. Government asked the friendly Shoshone Indian Tribes in Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming to swap their 44,672,000 miscellaneous acres for the choice, compact, well-watered 3,054,182 acres of what is now the Wind River Reservation southeast of Yellowstone National Park. The Indians agreed, moved and thereafter aided U. S. soldiers in campaigns against such hostile tribes as the Sioux, Arapahoes and Cheyennes. A few years later for reasons now unknown the conquered Arapahoes were given U. S. military escort to the Shoshone lands, protected...
...hand-picked audience would give enough encouragement to justify a Broadway opening. The partisan audience gave encouragement in plenty, though its drama-conscious members could not blink the fact that so loose-jointed a show might not be so happy in the commercial theatre as its more compact, economical model...
...muddling through in northwest China last week was more a case of bloodling through. For the past five years China has had a compact, mobile, self-styled "Red State"-a vast semi-bandit group of Chinese Communists under able native Red generals, propagandists and administrators who in 1931 had established a Provisional Government in a large splotch of China some 200 miles in diameter, perilously close to the Chinese Government at Nanking (see map). This Red State today can be roughly compared to those of such old-time Asiatic nomad conquerors as Genghis Khan, whose traveling bureaucrats pitched their tents...