Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...numerous letters to his mother. He was impressed by the fact that Chicago had 1,156,000 telephones, 5,100 lawyers, 3,400 dentists, 9,200 physicians. At his first life class at the Institute, he blushed furiously: the naked model was a girl. "Man, does she have a shape!" he wrote to his mother...
First, Thayer got rid of Partridge - no easy job. Soon after, he succeeded in dismissing the son of a major general for returning late from vacation. Thus began the impartial, ironclad discipline that was to shape West Point's growth...
...House That Thayer Built. Few West Pointers have made so dramatic an entrance or so notable an exit as First Captain Robert Woods. But most of what happened to Woody in the three-year interim was what happens to every cadet. He was rolled, ground, grooved and calibered into shape by the same basic regimen that West Point has followed for more than a century. This process for molding military youth was set up by one of the neglected great men of U.S. education, a graduate of West Point as well as of Dartmouth. His name was Sylvanus Thayer...
...contrasted to the last game with the Bruins, played on a cold, rainy day that hampered Jack Wallace's pitching arm, Saturday's encounter at Providence showed what a right arm in top shape can do for a team...
...room looks entirely different from the way it looks to people. The dog's perspective is more foreshortened, so that the walls at the back of the room seem to converge toward the floor. In the same way, the shape of the furniture is changed. As dogs have no sense of color, the room is colorless; even stripes on furniture are indistinguishable...