Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...travel thousands of miles with cumbersome equipment, spend months of laborious preparation because the fleeting seconds of totality enable them to check whether the solar system is running according to calculations; to observe the effect of masking the sun on radio, weather and other terrestrial phenomena; to study the shape, brightness and composition of the sun's fiery corona. One of the first experimental confirmations of the Theory of Relativity came from an eclipse in 1919. Albert Einstein had predicted that, because the mass of a heavy body imposed a curvature on the space around it, starlight would bend...
With more than two weeks at Red Top to pep them into shape, it is entirely possible that they may present a showing on the nineteenth of the month that will give the Blue a surprise...
...enrolled members last year, they were still ahead of the Methodists as the nation's largest non-Catholic body. Contributions to all Southern Baptist work aggregated $26,888,567, an increase of 10% over the year before. Baptist ministerial training was not in such good shape. Last available statistics showed that 64% of Southern Baptist ministers had neither college nor seminary training; only 14% had both. In two nations Baptist mission aries had had their troubles: 1) in Italy where the state had all but expropriated 15 acres of Baptist land; 2) in Rumania where the Government had detained...
...years, adjusted his bifocal spectacles, described his method of repairing a throat crushed and puckered by a blow, strangulation, fall, crash or gash: "We have gone to the iron foundry for mechanical aid in treating such cases. Iron is cast through the use of sand cores that have the shape of the desired casting. We need a core that has the shape of the normal larynx so that we can mold from the amorphous mass of shattered cartilage, torn tissue and blood clots the opening necessary for the normal functioning of the organ." To do that Dr. Jackson...
...parts most of the time and the way he just thinks nothing of it and goes right ahead and does a grand job of acting is beyond comprehension. In this picture he is the aviator who defends the beautiful society blonde (Joan Bennett) from perils that keep changing their shape. He has to do a lot of tricks to preserve his status as guardian, but he does them all gracefully and eventually wins her. Zasu Pitts and a horrible little boy who turns out to be a hero, Bennie Bartlett, are also in the show and add to its attractiveness...