Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Medicine's Dr. lago Galdston said last week the trouble was not ear-pulling but leg-pulling. Snorted Dr. Galdston: "This is baloney with a thick layer of sausage. If you hung up a boy by his ears for a couple of months, it might change their shape...
...injuries to A squad members. O'Loughlin, 194-pound tackle, who has looked very good on defense, suffered a wrenched knee, a recurrence of an old injury. Ready, who has been filling the center post regularly, injured a nerve in the back of his leg. Both may be in shape to play Saturday, however...
...construction foreman explained yesterday that mortar and dust must be kept off the stone and this is done by scrubbing with brushes, water, and diluted acid. "We've got to turn the building over in good shape," he said. "After that it can just age naturally...
...today the nucleus of Britain's National Physical Laboratories, an analogue of the Bureau of Standards in the U. S. Comprising nearly 30 buildings scattered over 50 acres, the Teddington laboratories check weights and measures, test and develop new materials for industry. It was there that the best shape for the Queen Mary's hull was worked out. On the lower floor of the palace, technicians are busy in their workrooms. In 30 rooms on the upper two floors, recently refurbished, lives one of Britain's most distinguished scientists, William Lawrence Bragg, an authority on electricity...
...demand, even by tripling its service, American Airlines got Civil Aeronautics Authority permission to waive its franchise, then asked other airlines to help out. United Air Lines, Eastern Airlines and Transcontinental & Western Air pitched in. When at week's end railroad grades and highways were got back into shape, other lines retired after the busiest spell of flying U. S. airlines had ever undertaken...