Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...considered a successor for Frank Knox. As the well-tanned President arrived back in Washington, Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, his personal physician, said proudly that his patient had shaken off his winter sniffles and bronchitis, declared: "I am perfectly satisfied with his physical condition . . . excellent shape ... as strong as he was a year...
...bronchitis. But after Teheran, Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire, the President's physician, took his patient firmly in hand. Since then the President has rarely missed his two swims a week, has been trying to lighten his 16-hour day. Dr. McIntire now declares the President in good shape. This week Mrs. Roosevelt announced that it would be "a week or so" before he returns to Washington, because, though he looked well when she saw him the week before, his doctors wanted him to stay on vacation "until he really completes his rest...
...moving his electrodes on a subject's head, Dr. Adrian located these areas definitely, and also located the image. Thus, when a subject looked at a cross of light, electrical impulses defined a cross-shaped area at the back of the occipital lobe of the brain. A sound heard by the subject likewise made a brain image of a characteristic shape. Dr. Adrian observed that he had not yet discovered the shape of a violet's smell but he is confident that eventually he will...
...Navy, Ernie King could now say, was in good shape, with plenty of good equipment (2,500,000 tons of combat ships already). Now he could afford to let the security bars down and tell what sad shape it had been in, early...
...late Queen Marie of Rumania, Lady Diana Manners, Mary Pickford and a politician listed as "Mr. X."* Most of these people had never heard of Schireson. But his bona fide patients claim that Schireson's surgical methods are terrifying. He even used hammers to whack noses into shape...