Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty sure that something fairly exciting is going to happen. When, 30 minutes before the curtain is to be rung down, the hero makes an arrangement with one of the gunmen to kill him before they leave, a spectator may be forgiven for twisting his program completely out of shape...
Since the Student Council faces a live and controversial problem for the first time in several years, in the Senior Marshal election and recount, any action which it may adopt tonight will shape its effectiveness as an influential student organization. If it should fall to adopt a decisive course, student government at Harvard may suffer a telling blew. To phrase the question simply, inaction will destroy its prestige while a courageous course will demonstrate that it is fulfilling its normal function...
...Ross T. Mclntire, naval physician in attendance at the White House, rendered an interim report on his duties: the President is "in better physical shape" than at any time since March...
...Busy though he was all week with the job of whipping his 1936 budget into shape for Congress, President Roosevelt found time to have oldtime Democrat Newton D. Baker to lunch at the White House. The Wartime Secretary of War was there not as a Party man but as an attorney challenging the constitutional right of TV A to sell electric power (TIME, Nov. 12). On subsequent days the President received calls from bigwigs of the utility world: Wendell L. Willkie, president of Commonwealth ; Southern; Preston S. Arkwright, president of Georgia Power; Floyd L. Carlisle, board chairman of Niagara Hudson...
...changing abruptly to cream-colored forehead. Pale blue clever bulgy eyes, glaring dizzily at something in offing, possibly anthill. Sandy eyelashes, invisible eyebrows, lips gathered on a drawstring with puzzled purse like old lady's reticule. Nose of a grocer adding up slip. Freckled hands with an elegant shape, sensitively caressing cigarette. Face wiggles formlessly into collar, long seamy neck to rear. Gold rimmed spectacles, mal-fitting collar, hunched shoulders. Looks overheated, corrugated, modest and oafish. A country-store type...