Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purely a practice encounter calculated to whip the Varsity back into shape after a long mid-year lay-off, the game was played under a mutual no-body-checking and no-penalties agreement. It was the second time that the two teams have met this season...
...better shape than is usual for the first match of the year, the wrestlers will release a team of unknown calibre against the Tigers when they visit Cambridge this Saturday...
...several of the practice slaloms, a newcomer, Carl Porges '42 of Austria turned in several top times, while Thomas Winship '42, and Berrion Anderson '42 may shape up as jumpers. Three cross country races were held, one a 25 mile all they conditioning...
...generation ago western civilization had apparently outgrown the major evils of barbarism except for war between nations. The Russian Communist Revolution promoted the evil of class war. Hitler topped it by another, race war. Fascism and Communism both resurrected religious war. These multiple forms of barbarism gave shape in 1938 to an issue over which men may again, perhaps soon, shed blood: the issue of civilized liberty v. barbaric authoritarianism...
...more transparent poetaster is Joseph Auslander. His poetical surfaces hide nothing. His complete visibility has attracted popular attention, and has brought him official recognition, in the shape of an appointment as consultant in English poetry for The Library of Congress. His latest book of rousing, rhythmical lyrics, Riders at the Gate (Macmillan, $1.75), his eighth and his best, is a simon-pure example of poetical swaggering...