Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect their tender fundaments, Monte Carlo croupiers sit on soft leather doughnuts, as experience has shown that this shape of cushion is best for the work. Even so, spinning a roulette wheel while keeping argus eyes on ladies and gentlemen who are prone to cheat is nerve-racking business. To keep croupiers from having nervous breakdowns they are changed every few hours, retire between times to a musty lounge below stairs equipped with shower baths. But sooner or later a Monte Carlo croupier was sure to go crazy in public...
...score records of the Crimson sextet there is considerable potential strength in the out fit as was shown in occasional flashes of brilliance in all of the games played this season. With more experience and the improved technical performance that accompanies it, Stubbs may be able to whip into shape a team that will show up favorably in the league contests, which begin Saturday with a game with Princeton at Princeton...
...sales. But it is not all gamble: rather it is an attempt to rationalize a device that was born a generation ago as a buggy with an engine under it. Later the engine was put in front to substitute for the horse. Thus the automobile gradually acquired a shape that was just the reverse of that most efficient for overcoming air drag-low in front and high behind instead of high in front, tapering behind. The new De Soto is an approach to the sweeping curve of a tear drop. Its front mounds up in a smooth curve over...
Initiating a new scheme for keeping the football players in shape the year round, Coach Casey will open an informal practice for both Freshman and Varsity men Monday, in the Briggs Cage...
...important to know what stock prices are or exactly what the dollar is doing. If the listener-in gets tired of any of these things-for example, if he gets fed up with one of my public utterances -your industry has provided a simple remedy in the shape of a little knob. . . I only wish that all other matters could be dispensed with so easily." Elected an honorary life member of the New York Evening Sun's Sun Club was Elder Statesman Elihu Root, 88. onetime (1905-09) Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (1912). onetime Sun dramatic...