Following Britain's entry into the second world war, the normal three-year degree programme had been compressed into two years.
For the sake of dramatic action, certain discrete events have been compressed into one event, particularly in the area of retorts and bons mots.
But that process has been compressed into four trading days as hedge funds and other investors take advantage of JPMorgan's distress, fueling faster deterioration in the underlying credit market positions held by the bank.
To minimize time spent away from campus, the 20-game conference schedule is compressed into five weeks, featuring back-to-back doubleheaders every Saturday and Sunday.
The seven books of Josephus are compressed into five, but much has been added from the Antiquities of the Jews, also by Josephus, and from the works of Roman historians, and several entirely new speeches have been introduced to suit the occasion.
The entire account of the metallic constituents of both annealed and hardened steels is compressed into five pages, and although the statements are terse and accurate they can convey a definite meaning only to readers who are to some extent prepared by previous study of the subject.
Not to be passed up either are Jonas Akerlund's "Ray of Light," in which, to music by Madonna, the passage of a frenetic 24-hour urban day is compressed into five minutes of fly-by imagery, and Doug Aitken's powerful "Diamond Sea (Linear Version)," a rhythmic photographic essay on the desert, coast and well-guarded diamond mines of Namibia.
Once your child has done this part of the exercise several times, he will find that what took 20 minutes at first can now be compressed into five minutes or less.
The story is compressed into two hours and 10 minutes.
It's as if American Ballet Theater's two-month Metropolitan Opera House season were compressed into three weeks.
