Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...search for accurate information concerning man's physical makeup, anthropologists have been able to make actual measurements of many features, such as stature, head length, facial width, and the like. Many other characteristics of the individual, however, cannot yet be accurately determined. The shape and slope of the forehead, hair color, the color and pattern of the eye fall into this category...
...Nearing completion in Moscow is a super-safe stratosphere balloon made of waterproof muslin. If something goes wrong at high altitude, the bag is designed to spread into the shape of a parachute, land men and equipment without damage...
...every second, producing 100 to 300 millionths of a volt each. The wave pattern is large, slow and evenly curved but cut by sharp downward strokes which perhaps reflect convulsions in the brain. During the depths of the epileptic fit, the characteristic long slow curves assume an unbroken S-shape...
...Times. To a publisher friend he confided: "I don't believe I'm a big enough man for the job." "Don't tell anybody," was his friend's advice, "and they'll never find it out." The New York Times was in even worse shape than the Chattanooga paper when Adolph Ochs bought it. It had only 9,000 circulation, owed $300,000 and was losing $1,000 every day. Against it was not only Bennett's Herald but also Pulitzer's World and Hearst's Journal, each trying to outdo...
...brain acquires its final pattern and shape, although only about four-fifths adult size, between the fourth and sixth years. "In other words, we send our children to school when all their mental faculties are potentially present, awaiting education to transform them into abilities...