Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty-five men answered Coach Jim MacDonald's call last Monday as the 1942 edition of the Varsity Soccer team begins to take shape. Captain Dick Gifford led his team mates through the opening session which introduced a number of Yardlings made eligible for competition this fall...
Giant cranes, like a lady longing sugar, delicately lifted the huge assemblies and set them down in the ways. Ships took shape in the space of a few hours...
...blood or blue blood. The Republicans renominated their honest rawboned Yankee squire and present Governor, 50-year-old Leverett Saltonstall, whose integrity is prized by voters of both parties, long disgusted with the corruption of Boston's Irish Catholic machine. Even the Democrats pushed aside tradition, in the shape of Irish Catholic Francis Edward Kelly, 39-year-old ex-laundryman and onetime Lieutenant Governor, to pick another blue blood: the 48-year-old, smart, handsome, energetic mayor of Springfield and president of the flourishing Package Machinery Co., Roger Lowell Putnam...
This change fixed up Claudia Cassidy and the Chicago Tribune fine, but left the rest of the Chicago press in bad shape musically. The Sun replaced Claudia with aging (70), venerable Felix Borowski, who has written eminently sound but eminently dull notes for the Chicago Symphony programs for years. The Chicago Daily News, on a policy of penny-wisdom, has been having its syrupy art critic, C. J. Bulliet, triple in brass: he writes not only music but movies and the theater. The Times has a stockbroker, R. J. Pollack, who writes music notes in his spare time (which...
Jaakko urges that all new Freshmen interested in running, track or cross country, come out immediately. "Even if you do not make Varsity," he said, "you will run many seconds faster and be in better shape next spring. There are many fellows, too, who have never run before they came to Harvard, and then they make very good runners...