Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promptly announced that the President's ailment was no more than a slight In Boston, the President's personal physician, Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, said: "He was hit by the flu, and hard hit when he was sick recently, but he's right back in shape." Last week the President took things easy. Main news was his acceptance of the resignation of Donald Nelson as WPBoss, moved Acting Chairman Julius A. ("Cap") Krug into the top post. Don Nelson, just back from China (TIME, Oct. 2), will stay in the official family...
...July 11 -Mavis [a Japanese fighter plane] flew over . . . no see . . . left eye bad shape . . . still have water...
...ahead the bulky, unmistakable shape of a battleship winks a bright orange light. Then the soft thudding slap comes over the water: that blinker was a 14-inch salvo. Cruisers, battlewagons and tin cans are standing in amazingly close to the shore, pounding away with all their guns. We knew the island was to catch some 12,000 rounds of projectiles, 5-inch or bigger. But that was just a statistic; now we see it. We hear the blast of the big guns and the ripping-silk sound of the heavy shells sailing to their targets. We see the warships...
...other sitters: Henry Wallace, Harlan F. Stone, George Marshall, Harry Hopkins, Francis Biddle, Cordell Hull, Henry L. Stimson, Walter Lippmann, John L. Lewis, Donald Nelson. Says Sponsor Kiplinger: "The purpose is primarily historical . . . history is made by men. What did the men look like? How did they stand? What shape of heads? This collection will give to history a personal piquancy...
Speed workouts combined with long riverbank jaunts are the order this week as Jaako Mikkola whips his 1944 Crimson cross country team into shape for the important dual meets with Tufts and M.I.T. on September 30 and October...