Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could go ashore in Norfolk. I remember how he was stripped to the waist in the first instance, sweat pouring off him, and swearing heartily at the vagaries of putting ten shells where only nine should go. In the second instance, he returned the shoes and socks in good shape. He was a congenial wardroom companion as well, and kept us well entertained with stories of the fabulous man, his father. I well remember his devouring curiosity for all things naval, and was pleased to have him come to me with questions, although he was rightly a few months senior...
Having completed its summer activities with last Thursday's concert in the Yard, the Harvard University Band is now rounding into shape for the first game of the football season when a Naval Pre-flight Training School team opposes the Crimson in the Stadium...
...shape of the order was nearly determined at week's end. The President planned to establish a new Economic Stabilization Board: Price Boss Leon Henderson, Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, War Labor Board Chairman William H. Davis, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner S. Eccles, Budget Director Harold Smith and probably an outside chairman as yet unnamed. The board would administer price control, formulate wage policy, make tax recommendations...
...third place, public opinion has been confused by "military experts" who argue that because the bombing of Britain was indecisive, air power is still indecisive. This argument receives unwitting support in the shape of pleas for great fleets of super bombers which would require years to build; the misleading implication being that what we now have cannot...
When the U.S. State Department began to chase the Axis-controlled airlines out of South America back in 1938 nobody ever dreamed the whole program would some day end in a conglomeration of good intentions, good airline service, international politics and sinister trans-ocean intrigue. Yet that was the shape of things last week. And in many a South American city and town there were signs that: 1) although the U.S. did a good turn in ousting Axis airlines, it has since been unable to expand service fast enough to meet total demand; 2) the U.S. has not done enough...