Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holy Cross and M. I. T. will start today. Although the latter college is not expected to offer any exceptionally stiff competition, the Crusaders are reported to have the strongest harrier outfit in years, and Coach Mikkola is expected to have a difficult task whipping his team into running shape by Friday, October...
Economics 4, a composite of two old half courses in railroads and corporations respectively, was given as a unit for the first time last year by Associate Professor Mason and Assistant Professor Chamberlin. It contains a wealth of interesting and important material, not yet fully hammered into shape...
...just heard of a thing that happened to an anthropologist connected with Harvard who got back some months ago from two years in East Africa. He was going through the Grand Central here, his mind still full of scientific data, including skull measurements and the shape of crania, when he caught sight of a Redcap who seemed unmistakably to have the Semitic cast of features of the Swahili Africans. He went up to the darky and began jabbering away in Swahili, and in a couple of seconds the Redcap was down bumping his head on the floor and thrashing...
...latest book, "The Shape of Things to Come," Mr. H. G. Wells attempts to look into the future. The following passage, taken from the chapter entitled "America in Liquidation," describes the visit of an Englishman to Harvard in the year 1958 and what he found here...
...Said newsmagazine Time, reviewing "The Shape of Things to Come"; "Harvard University, with T. S. Eliot as president, will be an old-world backwater, out-Oxfording Oxford." Mr. T. S. Eliot is not a grandson of President Charles William Eliot, but a member of another branch of the family...