Word: compactness
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Perhaps finger-print signatures are almost as ancient as those of the cross, plain and simple. Pirate stories abound with descriptions of contracts, signed in blood by solemn imprint of the fingertip--or, more often, of the "massive thumb". Tom Sawyer's famous compact has been an inspiration to many a romantic youth. And artists, from time immemorial, have used the finger-print as a personal signature on drawings and paintings. But in spite of so honorable an ancestry, the idea of compulsory finger-prints seems to be meeting with some opposition...
...millionaire and Ethel is a poverty-stricken widow, immersed in the memory of her husband. The doctor has discovered that he loves her; but his respect to her devotion to the departed restrains him long from saying the word. At last he is moved to it, and makes a compact with her, whereby he has her to adorn his house, but no further. He continues to pay every consideration to her sacred memories, not at all realizing that they are dying with the dead. The intervention of a supposed friend, who has no qualms about infringing on the realm...
...monthly periods on different subjects of current interest. The first definite step at organization was taken on Wednesday night when the Conservative Club was formed, while the opposing wing was constituted as the Progressive Club at a meeting last night. It is planned that these two Clubs will be compact and independent in themselves and that the debates will be carried on along lines somewhat similar to party divisions in a legislative body...
...Free State and its new constitution are by no means clear of the breakers as yet. There is still a compact, defiant Ulster to be dealt with, outside the provisions of the treaty and still nourishing the memory of age-long warfare with the South. Much depends on the Free State's policies. Radical interpretation of the constitution would cause a complete face-about in England's attitude and might permanently estrange Ulster. But a government of broad vision, using moderation and firmness in establishing law and order, can win the confidence and allegiance of the most irreconcilable skeptics...
...attention to the fact that Harvard has needed such a song-book for a long time, that the Glee Club saw the need and filled it, that the editors gathered together most of the songs which any rational group of judges would agree upon, and that the book is compact, attractive in appearance, and as inexpensive as the Glee Club could afford to make it. The "Harvard Song Book" ought to sell well and keep on selling...