Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang held the clay of history in its hands last week. It had a chance to start molding China into the beautiful shape which Sun Yat-sen imagined. Instead, it fixed prices against rice and salt...
After a year of wartime publishing and a shift in policy, the editors of "Threshold" have decided to devote all of one issue to a single type of subject matter. In terms of the magazine's own credo, its latest number is concerned with the shape of "the new world order." Under that rubric the organ of International Student Service has gathered both one of the finest and one of the poorest articles it has ever printed...
With a week of formal practice under its belt, the Crimson hockey team is rounding into shape for its first engagement of the season, a contest with Tufts at the Boston Skating Club at 5:30 o'clock on Friday. Coach John Chase's charges have been hampered slightly by a lack of ice, but the pucksters are expected to be a well-molded outfit when they face the Jumbos...
...Foreign Relief & Rehabilitation. To Humanitarian Lehman will fall the job of feeding and clothing people of Axis-conquered countries when they are liberated from their oppressors. His job knows no boundaries save those of the world. And since food has written more peace treaties than statesmen, it will shape the post-war world to a degree no man can yet foresee...
...Architect Jose Luis Sert (nephew of famed Spanish muralist Jose Maria Sert), who speaks the view of the International Congresses for Modern Architecture (C.I.A.M.*). To their title question, Can Our Cities Survive? (Harvard University Press; $5), Mr. Sert and his group answer: Not unless they are replanned; considering the shape modern cities are in, the only moot point is whether they will die lingeringly of internal maladies or violently by bombing...