Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this Summer. When people come up and ask us what our plans are we have nothing to say. We don't know whether to stick around the house and loaf and catch up on some reading, or get some kind of an outdoor job that will put us in shape. I suppose we will have to go up to the Cape with the family after all. That's not much fun. There's nobody up there any more. We'd sort of like to get the boat in shape--scrape her down and put a few new coats of paint...
Dick Johnson and Mac Millard will entrain for Berkeley later this week where they will toss the javelin and hurl the discus for the Crimson. Both men are in good shape and should bring back a few credits for the Mikkola tradition...
...other men. It must be out from banners and doubtless divorced from the deadly bookend, that its presence be a not too obvious prop of learning. As a substitute the Harvard arms is offered--the seal minus the circumferential lettering and the Christo et Ecclesiae, but the very shape itself must be altered from the round. What remains is a castrated version, devoid of all meaning and shorn of he grandeur of tradition...
...really great sprinters to be developed this year, has turnd in one 9.4 hundred yard race and twice he has negotiated the distance in 9.6. His slowest mark this season is 9.8. Anderson's teammate, "Mushy" Pollock has done 9.6 twice this year, although he has rounded into shape slowly due to a pulled muscle. Draper of U. S. C. has also done 9.6 in competition. In the 200, it is the same story, with Anderson and Draper each claiming a 21 second flat race, and Pollock has a 21.2 time credited to him in the furlough. The best time...
...Middlesboro, Ky., passing a graveyard late at night, Slim Jaggers whirled at a rustling noise, saw a big white shape, whipped out a pistol and fired pointblank. The bullet hit a big white tombstone, knocked off a marble chip which flew into Jaggers' eye, blinded...