Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Describing the past College year and outlining the probable shape of things to come in the immediate future, Dean Hanford last night bade farewell to the undergraduates who are about to enter the armed forces...
...Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814), signer of the Declaration of Independence, fierce antiFederalist, ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Massachusetts four times, was elected on his fifth try, subsequently reelected. He approved a bill which carved a state senatorial district in Essex County into an absurd shape, but gave the Federalists no chance of winning. At a Federalist rally, an artist (legend says it was Gilbert Stuart) drew a head, wings and claws on a map of the district, shouted: "That will do for a salamander." Cried a voice in the crowd: "Gerrymander...
...take over her husband's job, then draws him into helping her replace $9,000 her husband has stolen. The consequences include the locking of a man in the bank vault, a California spider and a running gun fight. In Double Indemnity a quiet California housewife (with "a shape to set a man nuts") persuades an insurance salesman to collaborate on her husband's murder. And so on-with readers hanging on Cain's hypnotic typewriter...
...have other properties as well. Among the most important: the capacity to take the heavy punishment of deep drawing (i.e., being punched into hollow shape) without wrinkling, cracking, or breaking apart...
Drawing starts with a round chunk or disk of steel which is cupped, then elon gated by a series of punches and dies which work the metal into cylindrical shape. The open end is trimmed or tapered, the base machined to shape. Between draws, which harden the steel, the cartridge case must be annealed. To protect it from corrosion and sparking it must also be varnish-sprayed and baked...