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...told me thay gave extra to footbal plaers at Harverd an i always was a skrub on the home team an was hert once an had to be stitched fer rupture uv tha brain. Never tha less that waz a lon tim ago an i am in shap agen to play. Dos Harved play Dartmuth any more. They usta when my old man wuz at Harverd...

Author: By Kristin E. Kitchen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. Byron Satterlee Hurlbut | 4/18/2002 | See Source »

...Three Meet the week after next and the Heptagonals and IC4A's later in November. After that, providing his chief rival junior Doug Hardin and other top harriers Tim McLoone, Keith Colburn and, Roy Shaw have regained top shap, the captain is thinking of national championships...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Wiry Harrier Captain Jim Baker Finds Leading Easier as Winner | 10/26/1967 | See Source »

Northern liberals who hope the Negro's life experience will impart a shap sense of injustice and a propensity for social criticism had best revise their estimates. Many of the acknowledged victims in America, whether trade unionists fighting for organizational rights in the thirties, or Negroes demanding civil rights in the sixties, regard themselves as victims of accident, not policy. The belief is that the system works, and the trick is to get inside the system, not to change...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: Problem at a Negro College in Atlanta: Education for Privilege or Equality? | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...nonprofit, nonpartisan institution has had a profound effect on government and the economy, has helped shap-national policy under both Democratic and Republican administrations. Brookings' experts laid the groundwork for present-day government accounting procedures, worked out the present system of congressional apportionment, produced the first U.S. budget under Budget Director Charles Gates Dawes. The institution also serves as a lending library of specialized technical talent. Brookings' staffers and alumni of its graduate school have advised virtually every executive agency and congressional committee in Washington on subjects ranging from highways to health insurance. When the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE RIZE OF ECONOMIC ADVISES | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...became editorial director of Look (TIME, Jan. 26), President & Editor Gardner ("Mike") Cowles told Look's staff that Tasker would "be the top editorial executive of the company." Tasker believes that the editorial department should be completely independent and not a satellite of the circulation department. But "Shap" Shapiro, a popular and determined "results player," could point to a slight dip in Look's newsstand sales to support his contrary view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shake-up at Look | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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