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Word: shapely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slide Rule Symphony has been practicing feverishly for the Engineering 270, 260 and 263 party on August 7. Maestro Chaffee is whipping the faculty into shape for the big musical event...

Author: By Ensign HERBERT S. balley, | Title: ARMY ELECTRONICS TRAINING CENTER and NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL (RADAR) | 7/30/1943 | See Source »

Zemke: It's not so bad. [To station]: His plane is in bad shape. I'm going to have him bail out northeast of -. [To Johnson]: We'll go up to 10,000 feet. Be sure you hold your legs together when you go over, and count ten. Try shaking it once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Conversation Piece | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...hours he had to live with the bleak inner loneliness that comes to a commander when he has made his cast and must wait for the fall of the dice, wondering whether he has anticipated everything, what will go wrong, how well reality will fit the shape of his intricate, painstaking plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF SICILY: Overseas Operations | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...horizon the instructor placed a scale model of a Jap ship. Black ship on black sea. Gradually the electrician turned on the dawn effect. To a landsman all was still dark, but one of the lookouts sang: "Ship! Bearing zero zero five." The black ship took faint shape as the light increased almost imperceptibly. "I think it's a carrier." It was. The artificial night was still black enough to make a cat stumble, but the lookout called the class and course of the enemy warcraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Eyes for Submarines | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...Junior baseball competition is beginning to shape up although the three hour disbursing exam last Saturday and the rain on Monday put some of the teams behind schedule...

Author: By J. D. Wilson, | Title: NSCS Midshipmen | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

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