Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calf of his leg. I have associated with me Frank N. Littlejohn, chief of detectives, who is today one of the outstanding men in his profession in the U. S., and when we finish our scientific and thorough investigation, we feel that the truth will come out in such shape that there will be no doubt as to the identity of the man who died in 1846 and stated on his death bed that he was the Marshal of France. CHARLES W. ALLISON...
...mile drive he was met by an unprecedented turnout of several hundred thousand, including many of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers, each of whom has been asked to contribute $1 toward the President's reelection. The Roosevelt panama was crushed completely out of shape in an afternoon of strenuous hat-waving at enthusiastic admirers...
Last week rains broke the drought in the South, gave hope of moderate crops. Still in critical shape were the corn states which, heat or no heat, could produce no more than 74% of their normal crop. Added to the list of emergency drought states was Governor Landon's Kansas, where Soprano Marion Talley's 1,600 acres of wheat were scorched brown...
...this was largely rumor, only General Chen knowing in what shape he had actually left Cantonese finances. To straighten these out Generalissimo Chiang did not call for the financial commission of white experts which might have been sent for a decade or more ago. Honesty in the sense that Western bankers are "honest" and efficiency in the sense that they are "efficient" is now in China the function of the Generalissimo's in-laws, the Family of Soong. Since famed Mr. T. V. Soong, chairman of the board of the Bank of China, could not be spared...
...across San Francisco Harbor. The Glad Tiding Temple Bible Institute's motorized loudspeaker serenaded the dentists with the refrain: "Oh, when we all pull together, together, together, how happy we will be." At the dentists' main banquet the St. Francis Hotel presented a huge confection in the shape of a full denture, cookies shaped like molars...