Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the baby graduates to Cleveland's Babies' & Children's Hospital, while he goes to kindergarten, to grammar school, to high school, Professor Todd intends to take frequent notes on all his measurable parts including shape and set of nose, eyes and ears. Professor Todd and assistants have been doing this to Cleveland children for the past six years...
...with Germany which Saint Sun expected to continue Socialist, not foreseeing Hitler. Last week famed Imperial German General Hans von Seeckt, he of the genial monocle and steel-trap brain, retired from China's service after putting Generalissimo Chiang's armies into the snappiest, most efficient shape ever attained by a Chinese force. Although von Seeckt leaves a junior German officer in China as his successor, Japan is strenuously pressing Premier Wang, who is also Foreign Minister, to clean out the Germans and appoint Japanese military advisers to China's Armies...
...long-range gunfire nine or ten factors might be taken into consideration for computing the most accurate possible trajectory: speed of battleship, speed of enemy ship, drift of waves, wind velocity, shape of shell, muzzle velocity of shell, atmospheric humidity, even the rotation of the earth. Naval engineers might wrestle with their ballistics equations for months to correlate these factors. The machine can do in five minutes what it takes five naval engineers four months to do on paper...
...first place in the League this year. This will be galling to some, who spent the fall gushing about the big prospects, but with all the trials and tribulations of the season taken into account, and with the amount of Sophomore material it was necessary to whip into shape, the record of the season was very creditable. There is little doubt in the minds of those who are in contact with the game at Harvard that Wes Fesler has materially raised the standard of Harvard basketball, and that the hopes for the future are still rosy...
Coming up from the Freshman team is a bunch of players of whom little definite can be said. Disorganized at the start, they were whipped into shape by Coach Samborski, and have enjoyed a fairly successful season. Outstanding names that will bear watching are Dampeer, Snell, and Litman. The sum of it all is that, what with a steadily improving coach, and an ambitious and hard-driving one also, a new, and in many respects improved crop of players, and a crop of small Feslers on the way, the sun is still rising on Harvard basketball...