Word: misshapen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oily waters of Pearl Harbor still lap the misshapen, rusted hulks of three great warships. They are all that remains of the heart-sickening wreckage of Dec. 7, 1941, when the U.S. suffered the worst naval defeat in its history. Sixteen other vessels hit that day have been scrapped, sent to the mainland for repair, or returned to the fleet...
This is not due so much to the financial burden as to the misshapen organization of the summer term itself. The administration has either conservatively neglected or foolishly discarded the possibility of dividing the year into three equal terms, and decided to hobble on two regular semesters from September to June, plus a jammed-up twelve week summer session, with no reading period and no time for tutorial work. They have not given us the time for tutorial in the summer--that is the crux of the matter. Instead, they have shaped something like a round wheel with a slice...
...studio of Draftsman Ralph E. Layman, police discovered a printing press, dies, a font of the eccentric, misshapen type used to print the code words on mutuel tickets. With this equipment, in an automobile parked near a race track, Layman could be his own totalisator machine, could punch out winning tickets after the race was over...
...last week the picture was correct: a great expanse of camouflage netting still covered her bulk. Next morning the picture looked the same-until experts scanned it. The hidden bulk was queer, slightly misshapen. Close examination showed that the shape under the camouflage net was not the Scharnhorst, but a 530-ft. tanker with smaller vessels at bow and stern to give her the Scharnhorst's length, with scaffolding built up to look like the battleship's superstructure...
Epstein's statues have started riots, thrown academicians into fume and sputter, horrified bishops, even worried Scotland Yard. They have been tarred and feathered, lathered with green paint, censored with fig leaves. They have been called ''bestial, hideous, obscene, monstrous, misshapen, vile...