Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lloyd's of London," the producers took what seemed to be a singularly unromantic subject and whipped into shape one of the best motion pictures of the year. The scope of the film embraces a period of about thirty-five years that period which saw Lloyd's grow from a Coffee House meet place for underwriting syndicates to the largest insurance mart in the world...
...researches that lie behind this performance enable Dr. Suits to predict the shape and behavior of an arc in any gas-and, conversely, to produce identical arcs in different gases by manipulating the pressure. Most of his hearers agreed that he had contributed handsomely to the science of arc welding and some predicted that his work would be discussed in future textbooks under the head of ''Suits's Law of Similitudes...
...knew they were heading for destruction. Less than halfway came the news that their squadron at Port Arthur had been wiped out, the remnants of the Pacific Fleet bottled up at Vladivostok. With every sea-mile it became more apparent that their own hastily-assembled armada was in no shape for a cruise, let alone a fight. Many of their ships were obsolete, the crews ignorant, ill-fed, mutinous. The commander, Admiral Rozhestvensky, an egotistical apoplectic, kept the air blue with curses, insults, frantic orders, all to no avail. The fleet did its poor best, shrugged its shoulders, called...
...Madagascar, Rozhestvensky held his first fleet for two and a half months while he waited for reinforcements, tried to whip his command into shape. To his purple-faced disgust he found that after a four-months' cruise it took his flagship an hour to up anchor, that "in an hour ten ships did not succeed in forming line, although the leading vessel went dead slow." In final target practice, after a furious fusillade, the target was unscathed. The morale of the fleet was not improved by these revelations, nor by the increasingly bad food, which caused a successful mutiny...
...Writes he: "The enforcement of laws is always delicate as well as difficult. Particularly in the field of Federal legislation, laws do not find places on the statute books until the social conditions which they are designed to remedy have become fixed. . . . Small groups and large seek to shape law enforcement to their own ends...