Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover inspected the U. S. S. Constitution when that famed old frigate tied up at Washington Navy Yard. He went poking down into her bilge where officers had to use flashlights, emerged with his grey felt hat battered out of shape by low beams. In the centre of the gun-deck President Hoover stopped to gaze at a brassbound barrel marked: GROG TUB. Commander Louis Gulliver explained that from it used to come the sailors' daily ration of a half-pint of strong drink. The President nodded, passed on silently...
With the Navy League growling behind him and jingoes in Congress snarling ahead, President Hoover last week whipped his Navy budget into final shape. Its total: $343,000,000. (This year's expenditure: $360,000,000.) Secretary Adams had first carried to the White House naval estimates totaling $401,000,000. Where and how the President proposed to effect $17,000,000 economies remained a secret which, as a matter of governmental courtesy, he had to save for Congress next month...
...wander on succeeding Saturdays from game to game and from university to university, that the duty of shricking to rhythm of rhymed nonsense, a hangover from mauve days when the boys were turtle neck sweaters and hats with brims turned up and pinned back with brooches in the shape of "Harvard", "Yale," and "Princeton" pennants, is being relegated more and more to freshmen and alumni. The undergraduate of any intelligence is growing resentful of having his afternoon's enjoyment for which he paid disrupted by the necessity of having to howl such items as "Rickety Rax," and "Ackalakaching...
Both Crickard and Mays will be back in togs tomorrow, although the former will probably undergo only a slight workout. He will be in shape for the Holy Cross game. White, who is suffering from a painful muscle bruise, will be given a rest all week with little or no possibility of playing against the Crusaders...
...morning three weeks ago, milk wagon drivers and early risers in Portland, Ore. saw a huge dark marine shape diving about in Columbia Slough, adjacent to the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. "Sportsmen" started shooting at it until Governor Julius L. Meier issued orders against it. By the end of a week the creature had been identified as a small killer whale which had wandered 100 mi. up from the sea. Press & populace named it Ethelbert. The Oregon Humane Society decided Ethelbert would never get back to sea, should be painlessly destroyed by dynamite. Before the dynamiting could...