Word: compact
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...According to Admiral Peary's idea, Polar exploration was nothing more than a problem in transportation--a problem of how to carry the most food in the most compact form. Peary's plan by which he reached the North Pole was to lead his sieds with food, and to send them back for more supplies as soon as their cargoes were exhausted. In this way, he just reached his goal, if he had fifty more miles to go he would have turned back...
...viciously with a high knee action that bowled over several tacklers before he was crushed. He rarely twisted or spun to evade the secondary defense. The effects of this bruising method of running evidently told on him as he became less effective as the game wore on. A compact little back of the type of Maulbetch of Michigan came to the fore in the later moments of the game. Zundell by name, he whisked through openings, usually in the right side of the University line, and swirled and stumbled up to and often practically through the second line of defense...
...course of the past twelvemonth that the people of America are distrustful of the League of Nations covenant as it now stands. Rather than support the Democratic viewpoint and vote for Cox, the equivalent, since President Wilson's outbreak of Sunday last, of voting for the League compact as proposed by Wilson himself, the majority would vote for a Republican nominee unalterably opposed to the League in any form...
...volume is more than a mere catalogue--it is a compact, readable history of Mediaeval and Renaissance paintings, with many fine engravings...