Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aniseikonia is Greek for "unequal images." When the sufferer looks at any object, the image reflected in the retina of one eye differs in size and shape from that in the other. The struggle of the brain's visual centre to fuse these two images brings aches, pains and frazzled nerves. Sometimes it cannot fuse them...
After two weeks of outdoor practice the Varsity tennis team has begun to shape up well and by Friday, April 27, when an informal match will be played with the Bates tennis team, the first six men will be definitely chosen. On Saturday, April 28 the first formal match will be played with the Cornell team, who are reported to be strong this spring...
...candle flickered, there was a shriek of torn wood that echoed through the 13th Century choir, and a dark shape hunched through a side door of the Cathedral of St. Bavon. Ghent and its canals slept on. Next morning it woke to find a panel of one of the world's most famed religious paintings wrenched away-the most sensational art robbery since the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. Nobody today remembers Jodocus Vijdts, Lord of Pamele, but every art connoisseur knows the polyptich which it is said Hubert van Eyck painted...
Producer Joe Losey from New York who has been assigned the duty of getting the play on the stage was upset over the action of Radcliffe in the matter but anticipated no difficulty in whipping the cast into shape in time for the opening curtain on May 2. There has been no new casting since the ban on Radcliffe girls but rumor has it that several debutantes who were in early tryouts might be recruited to fill the parts...
...handle or stock of the gun, in the shape of the handle of a crutch has been taken and suspicion has been directed both against the anti-war and the pro-war factions. This gun was originally a part of the armament of the cruiser "Harvard" during the World War. With the loss of its handle, the gun apparently lost its pride, for it has begun to droop dejectedly...