Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defending the compact target of Britain in 1940, the R.A.F. could keep its pursuit together, use it with crushing concentration. The Luftwaffe's job of heading off attacks from the wide reaches of German-held territory was more difficult. Germany had work for its fighters on the Russian front, and the few hundred that could be spared for defense against the R.A.F. had to be scattered...
...sensitive phonograph pickups. Astatic Microphone was still more surprised to find out that Du Pont engineers were putting the phonograph needles not on phonograph records but against factory fences, relaying the wires' vibrations to amplifiers. So Asiatic's engineers redesigned their pickups to make them more compact and weatherproof. Du Pont last fortnight announced the result: fences (equipped with five pickups to the mile) which can catch a wren's song or the sighing wind, and relay the sounds to a watchman five miles away. These pastoral effects, however, are usually filtered out; what the pickups...
...take sides violently for or against it, have had a field-day in comparing the so-called "well-made" play with the so-called "mood" play. Champion of the former group is Lillian Hellman, whose melodramatic hits, including "Watch on the Rhine" which opened here last night, are taut, compact plays, carefully plotted and manipulated. Prime progenitor of the "mood" plays is, of course, William Saroyan...
...been rejected by death is easily tempted to take up the pen.'' Such is Hillary's avowed reason for writing down at white heat this compact, moving journal. He has, however, a stronger reason, which gives his chapters their impact...
...Cabell also set about composing an urbane and bloody tale of Menendez' time, compact of history, folklore and imagination...