Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examining the detail of the octoplasm, Dr. William McDougall, former Harvard professor of Psychology, found "all the appearances of the lung of some animal surgically manipulated to resemble roughly the shape of a human hand." He implied, the report states, that the ectoulasm was realy some substance held in Margery's mouth and thence extruded...
...conquered with unusual ease in this history of American literature from its youthful beginning to what some still feel is its equally young position in modern times. But few obstacles may be surmounted without some application, and in a course of this nature it takes the pleasant shape of reading in the authors who make up our literature...
...fallen from 118 in June 1931 to around 48, the market value of these companies' securities depends entirely on how well their portfolios were managed. Best Co. set out to value insurance company assets on market prices, found that fire and marine insurance companies were in good shape with a large margin of safety, a number of casualty companies with much smaller margins of safety. Alert insurance brokers were busy last week shifting their clients from weak companies to strong ones...
Over a ton of apparatus in the shape of machines for refrigeration, developing, printing, enlarging, and storing, and three special cameras have been received from Texas in the last month and have been installed in the newly completed laboratory in the north wing of the Geography Building cellar. The laboratory and its equipment are for the use of students of Geography 36, the new course in serial photography which was started this half year. The course has been under the supervision of four army officers who have piloted the photographic flights and given instruction in taking, developing, printing, and using...
...special expectation. In all but one instance, these men, exceptional as their records are, have been subjected to the older sort of graduate work. Particular conditions of study planned for the Fellows must have a changing influence on their methods of approach, if the Society is to take shape as something more than a glorified Graduate School, with advantages chiefly visceral and social...