Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company lost money in every succeeding year. Last week it suddenly announced it had disposed of its $6,000,000-a-year fruit business (bananas in Jamaica and Cuba) to Standard Fruit & Steamship Corp., controlled by the Vaccaro interests of New Orleans. With the sugar industry in bad shape, with its current liabilities greater than current assets as last reported, Atlantic Fruit & Sugar seemed on the verge of another reorganization despite its imposing directorate...
...liked it better. Much more probably he was guilty of a confusion common when scholarly enthusiasm was seldom reinforced by research. An anachronism unmentioned by alert Reader Weinberg: an inkwell with a hinged top. However. Artist David was careful to paint a krater (drinking-bowl) of the right shape, a lamp of the right proportion, a chain with figure-eight links, and a pen & scroll of correct design. He followed convention in putting curly hair on Socrates and all his companions...
...contraband were found, the steamer's crew was ordered to its small boats and the steamer bombed to the bottom by the Zeppelin. That practice was abandoned, however, because of the danger of destruction by incendiary bullets from the steamer. Wholly unrelated to a dirigible save by its bullet shape, airplane motor and propeller drive is a so-called "rail Zeppelin" which made its maiden trip over a commercial route in Germany last week. With Inventor Franz Kruckenberg & Wife in the coach, the great aluminum-covered projectile shot along the rails from Hamburg to Berlin at an average speed...
Sutermeister, whose intercollegiate record of 13 feet, 6 inches was raised by Graber, Trojan star, to 14 feet, 1-2 inch with a vault that gave his team the meet on Saturday, will be in shape for the encounter at Stamford Bridge, London, on July 18, Kuehn, who tied with Moore at New Haven, won a place on the team when he outjumped the Eli at Franklin Field to tie with six others for fourth place. The Crimson end of the broad jumping will be in charge of either J. M. Morse '34 or W. L. Hasler...
...finish in the relays at Penn in April, 1930, has been talked of ever since, and who pulled a tendon in the mile relay at the H-D-C meet last winter after scoring in the 600, has jogged this spring in a vain effort to get back into shape...