Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover was 56 last week. Boy Scouts gave him, as their honorary president, a carved buffalo horn. At camp he had an angel-food cake with 56 candles. Dr. Joel T. Boone, White House physician, said the President was in "fine shape." Since inaugural the President's hair above the temples has turned white...
...Bambergers' attorney located the Watkins, brought them and his clients to a secret conference with six physicians. Each mother was certain she possessed her own child. Mr. Bamberger agreed. But Mr. Watkins continued dubious and pugnacious. He quieted down when the hospital doctors persuaded him to study the egg-shaped head of the baby his wife held and the round head of the baby in Mrs. Bamberger's lap. They explained : Mrs. Watkins' baby was her first, Mrs. Bamberger's her third. First babies usually have warped heads because they must force their way through the bony unused birth canal...
Recommendations: Pedagogs were admonished to take no retainer in future "from private persons in any controversial case involving questions of public policy."* Educational institutions were cautioned against sanctioning such research except in cases where the fee is granted "in lump sums, and not in the shape of periodical renewals." In conclusion, the report said: "The university professor must be like a judge. . . . Higher education and scientific research must evoke in the public mind the same confidence as does the system of justice. If the belief in the integrity of either is weakened, a mortal blow has been struck...
...become occasional companions though never intimates. Sir Bussy's intellect is insatiable, restless; he has the money to gratify his curiosity. When he decides to investigate spiritualism, he does it thoroughly, holding seances in specially-constructed laboratories. At one of these seances, "ectoplasm" from the medium takes independent shape, absorbs Mr. Parham, announces itself as the Lord Paramount, savior-dictator of England. Sir Bussy and his skeptical companions acknowledge the dictator, do his bidding. There is a coup d'état, Parliament is closed, England put under martial law. The Lord Paramount wants a war and gets...
...last year de-signed and built a diving ball which proved too heavy for any practical hoisting equipment. The present, successful model weighs two tons. The diving "bell" de-signed and operated in the Mediterranean with some success by Inventor Hans Hartman (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925) is cylindrical in shape with a rounded top, stabilizing propellers and a detachable sinker to be dropped in case of trouble. Barton's diving ball presents a minimum surface relative to content, hence has less pressure to withstand. Added virtue: all the stresses are uniform...