Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rigged between the trench and a hole in the fabric. Someone touched a match to a pile of kindling in the trench. Soon the fabric began to bulge and billow with hot air inside it. After ten minutes of fire-stoking and manipulating of ropes, the fabric took shape as a balloon, tugging and straining at its guys. A trapeze was rigged below the balloon's mouth, and just above the trapeze was a platform holding an automatic cinema run by batteries. Out from the little crowd stepped a handsome young man, shedding his cloak with a nourish...
...Illinois and Charles John Brand of Minnesota who were appointed co-administrators last week, was ready to proceed cautiously with the other price-upping provisions of the law. His first step called for a series of Washington conferences with the producers and processors of each basic commodity to shape up an operating program on marketing agreements. If most millers consent to buy wheat from growers at $1 per bu., Secretary Wallace can suspend the anti-trust law to sanction such a bargain. If a minority group of millers refuse to join the agreement and try to beat wheat down...
...Coach Whiteside's first opportunity to test out the crew which he rehabilitated last week. Since the return of Bacon to number 6 after the triangular regatta a fortnight ago, Varsity practice has consisted only in easy paddles designed to reorient the crews and to get Bacon back into shape by easy stages...
...could be accommodated for a four or five-day patrol flight. There are two 375-h.p. engines for propulsion, three auxiliary engines for operation of equipment. One of the three generates current for the radio when the ship is resting on land or water. (The control car is shaped like a boat.) Another engine operates a blower to force air into the envelope and help maintain its shape. The third drives a windlass for lowering and raising a sub-cloud car. The sub-cloud car, streamlined and camouflaged to blend into an overcast sky, can be lowered...
...owned mine and did it satisfactorily, though his simple tastes would have attracted him to farming. All he wanted for the immediate future was Maria, daughter of fat Marco Sanclemente, who ran the company canteen. Marco was a politico in a small way and tried to shape his future son-in-law into one. But again, though Jose made a success that surprised himself in his only venture among the firecrackers of Cuban politics, he did not like it, slipped off at the first opportunity and went back to his Maria. Fat Marco stayed on in the town, became...