Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church, the relation of the Church to emperors after Constantine, and the influence of the Old Testament ideas on the sanctity of the ruler. On p. 159, they continue "We may at least reasonably say that the tradition of Israel provided the centre around which such opinion took definite shape and form." Indeed, it is impossible to read the Old Testament and feel that Hitler's autocracy, of single party ballots compounded, would have flourished anywhere so well as in Israel. Dr. Krause should not allow his hatred of the Jews to blind him to that great bulwark to Nazi...
...What shape the first of these will assume is not difficult to divine. The Reichstag is to become constitutionally and distinctly a council incapable of anything save advice. It is conceivable that the body might vote itself to be separated into functional groups, of the "trade-profession" variety. Mr. Hitler, with his ear well-cocked to the earth, is to be sole ruler. This latter, of course, is true today. But it will be a happy premium against the future to have the Reichstag vote itself out of power...
...seems, for the concensus of opinion after the Lehigh brush, was that Harvard must inevitably fall before the Army's vaunted attack. Advance season reports on the West Point team claimed that Gar Davidson was scheduled for some tough going if he wanted to whip the team into shape with only three returning regulars. He has done what seemed impossible, and has turned out a team that has flown in the face of the dopesters. And one of the most important factors in the Army's success is the performance of Jack Buckler, who has become an able successor...
Frederic William Goudy's interest in the shape and style of letters started as a child when he decorated his Sunday School room with texts redrawn from specimen letters in an old type book and cut out of fancy wallpaper. As bookkeeper, clerk, unsuccessful publisher, ad vertising artist, he never lost interest in letters. From Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers, other famed printers and designers have built great reputations on the strength of two or three original alphabets. In the centre of the Goudy exhibition last week a streamer list hung from a column. It started with Camelot, 1896, ended...
...change which may mean steady pay again, slapped their bows against their fiddle strings. Rodzinski in return gave a performance of Brahms's First Symphony which became the musical talk of the town. New and exciting to Clevelanders was the way he often puts down his baton to shape the music with his bare hands, a mannerism he picked up from Leopold Stokowski...