Word: compactness
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Shrewd Senor Azana, when appointed War Minister (TIME, May 4) decided at once that 22,219 commissioned officers (149 of them Generals) were too many for Spain, slashed the number to 7,000. "Our Army today," he has said with modest pride, "is compact!" Last week amid National Assembly bedlam about Mother Church, shrewd War Minister Azana suddenly deserted pious President Alcala Zamora, made a fiery anticlerical speech which delighted the Socialists (largest Spanish party). That speech a few hours later made War Minister Azana the Provisional President and Premier of Spain. But first
Actually of course the weak Chinese Government at Nanking brandished boycott last week as their strongest weapon against compact, sinewy Japan...
This is a tight, tart little diatribe upon Things That Are in the U. S. It is compact with disgust of a shrewd Manhattan lawyer who despises cultural inconsistencies and would like to destroy them. Superficially America's Primer resembles New Russia's Primer (TIME, May 4). But the Russia book was written especially for native schoolchildren. America's Primer is a phrase book for those discontented, restless, loosely anchored, ever-thinking, rarely-doing citizens of the larger U. S. communities who grope for but seldom encompass Reform. They are the folks who discuss what Colyumist Heywood Broun writes...
...HERO-Alfred Neumann-Knopf ($2.50). You frequently hear post-War literature criticized for being ugly, brutal, bereft of nobility. Many a novel of contemporary Germany can be tarred with this stick. But Herr Neumann's psychological epic, his portrait of a modern hero, while it is compact of journalistic realism, is neither ugly, brutal, nor ignoble. Neumann has translated old virtues into modern terms, but their values remain...
...sine wave systems of telegraphy, multiplex telegraphy and telephony, tree telegraphy and telephony, broadcasting over power and telephone lines by radio frequency currents (wired radio). General Squier's exhibit at Chicago was an unexpected non sequitur to his previous work. It was a woman's powder compact, rigged with a strap for wrist wear. A tiny handle pulled out a small drawer wherein reposed powder, puff and mirror...