Word: compact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Above all, "Gentleman's Agreement" is a call for action that will be somewhat embarrassing to everyone except those who reject its message right from the beginning. The gentleman's agreement is a compact of silence, it says, and these who tacitly, even if unwillingly, accept anti-semitism as a part of the social system are as guilty as the active bigots. This point is made with a minimum of declamatory speeches: a burning issue has been put frankly before the eyes of the public, and the overall excellence of the movie as a movie should attract many besides...
Comforts of Home. Near Askov, Minn., a search party finally found the hunter who had packed his gear in the dark, gone into the wilds with his wife's compact instead of his compass...
...more frequent on U.S. bookshelves were new books about American heroes, past & present. There was the usual swelling of Lincolniana. The most compact was Paul Angle's The Lincoln Reader, the most controversial was J. G. Randall's Lincoln, the Liberal Statesman. The other myth amaking, the Roosevelt myth, was being shaped by varied hands, including F.D.R.'s bodyguard. Son Elliott edited a fat volume of his father's letters written between the ages of five and 22, and the President's Vatican representative, Myron C. Taylor, brought out the platitudinous Wartime Correspondence Between President...
Nichols, son of a well-to-do Kansas storekeeper, first learned about neat, compact towns on a trip to Europe. At Harvard he wrote a thesis on the development of raw land. In 1904, with $21,500 put up by farmers, he began to develop raw land himself at Olathe, Kans...
...restricted merchants to eleven compact areas, built them shopping centers (against rent and a percentage of gross receipts) in Spanish, Elizabethan and Colonial styles. Home builders got a choice of one of three areas (large, medium-sized or small houses), where each could build a house according to his own pocket-book-and Nichols' choice of architecture...