Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intense interest that has clung to Dick Harlow's opening weeks with the Crimson gridders has prevented much notice being taken of that other part of Harvard's football New Deal, the Freshman squad, which, after four days of practice has now begun to take definite shape...
...last week at the British Association for the Advancement of Science convention in Norwich. It was just a century ago that Charles Robert Darwin, cruising in the Beagle, landed on the Galapagos Islands where his theories of organic evolution, transformation of species and natural selection began to take definite shape. Vastly irked last week was Dr. Ernest William MacBride, longtime professor of zoology at London's Imperial College of Science, by the eulogies heaped upon Darwin's name and work at Norwich...
...limits on the coaching staff's time make it necessary for Harlow to cut his candidates down to a number small enough for personal supervision. By this stage he has found out where most of his material lies and must concentrate on whipping the top 40-odd candidates into shape for the opening test on October...
Since "big business" is enjoying a "breathing spell" free from the political fears, the Business School this year may discover what has really happened to Wall Street. It can learn whether its admirable program of public administration satisfies the changed shape of such institutions as J. P. Morgan or whether the rapid measures of the last two years have worked more subtle changes than are yet evident...
...cigaret paper. Shortly after graduation he did two surgical tricks that brought him quick professional reputation. He devised the most successful way of sewing the cut ends of an artery together: put draw strings through each end of the artery: pull until the circular edges acquire a triangular shape; bend the flaps outward; put the two triangles together; hem the fringe of flaps together. The inside of the artery is now smooth; hence no blood clot will form there...