Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worst shape of all, however, was the respectable 54-year-old Catholic Nationalist Echo de Paris. Last week it was finally rescued by and merged into veteran Leon Bailby's struggling Rightist Le Jour. Le Jour, now Le Jour-L'Echo de Paris, lost, however, one of Echo's biggest assets: Anglophile André Géraud, better known as Pertinax, one of the best connected of the many well-connected political writers in France. His political dispatches which sparkle like champagne at a diplomat's table have long appeared in the London Telegraph...
...must close back on itself and therefore be finite-but only if the curvature is positive. It may be negative, that is, somewhat less curved than a straight line. Negative curvature, which in mathematics simply involves a minus sign, cannot of course be visualized; but if such is the shape of the hypersphere, the universe must be "open"-i.e., infinite. Some theorists have suggested that the universe may not be spherical but hyperbolic-closed at one end, open at the other. The erection of Caltech's 200-inch telescope in California may possibly settle the question...
...late dispatch from Wellesley indicated that the girls had undergone a brief warm-up session with the Princeton Country Day School, and that everything seemed in good shape for the scrum in Briggs' Cage on Saturday. The H.A.A. announced that the grapplers would dispense with the usual formalities and begin the three-hour halves promptly at eight. It was warned that the entertainment tax would be higher than usual...
...come home from the trip with a majority of wins, the nine will have to be in top shape. The opener with Virginia on Tuesday will be no setup for the southerners have a fine team with plenty of hitting strength. Navy should prove to be the easiest encounter on the tour, while Georgetown will be by far the toughest. The Friars usually produce one of the best outfits in Eastern seaboard college circles. Lafayette is more or less of an unknown quantity, but Columbia will definitely be hard to beat. The Crimson trimmed them twice last year...
After three days of outdoor practice, Coach Fred Mitchell has had a better chance to size up his baseball prospects in preparation for the annual spring vacation jaunt. As a result a definite team lineup seems to be coming into shape...