Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that had them scowling at each other last week, have maintained ail along that heavy capitalization is to blame (see p. 62) and that Labor should not be forced to pay for Management's mistakes. In any case, they insisted that the roads were not in bad enough shape to warrant a cut that would reduce wages by $250,000,000 a year. Would the disputants, asked perspiring Dr. Leiserson, submit their differences to arbitration? Yes, said Mr. Enochs. No. chorused Messrs. Harrison and Whitney. The National Mediation Board then realized that the dispute needed more sitting on than...
...skull interiors usually reveal faint lines made by convolutions of the brain. These are more developed in man than in ape. When chewing, the ape moves his jaw straight up and down. Man rotates his jaw. Hence there are decided differences between ape and man in the size and shape of their teeth, particularly the molars. Prehistoric human skeletons which anthropologists have pieced together demonstrate these differences in one respect or another. While possessing many apelike features, these early men were definitely human. Oldest and most prominent...
...schools of thought, but on nose-blowing as a science, only one. Strictly unscientific is the popular custom of gripping the end of the nose with the handkerchief, for it closes the nostrils, backfires the nose into the ear tubes or sinuses. When the nose is in good hearty shape, the grip method may not be harmful, but "when it is diseased, beware...
Costing nearly a million dollars, the building is strictly classical in style, rectangular in shape, with Ionian pilasters, on the fads. The foundations extend 22 feet below the surface in order to accommodate two floors of book-stacks...
...those adopted before 1933's amendments to the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Formerly, the practice was for underwriters to get a friendly creditor to bring suit in a friendly court, thus in effect pick their own receiver-who generally favored stockholders over bondholders; often railroads were in as bad shape after reorganization as before. Under Section 77, ICC can insist on its own reorganization terms or rewrite plans originally submitted. ICC accepted almost wholly the trustee's draft of the Great Western plan, which will take effect Jan. 1, 1939 if approved by the Federal Court in Chicago...