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Word: shapely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left half Gaye Deceiver, a standout in his younger days, is back in shape. With Sam Small, Marty Medium and C. N. Things filling out the backfield, the Crime should present the Big Green daily with a formidable array...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Reveals?-Formation Today | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

Both teams must win this game to make their seasons successful. It looks almost even this morning, with Green power and speed slightly favored over Crimson skill and determination. Both squads are in good physical shape: the Soldiers Field roster is longer than at any time since before the Columbia game...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Crimson Eleven Confronts Dartmouth Today In 52nd Renewal of Ancient Gridiron Rivalry | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

...Realize?" Meanwhile, more & more things (not including international relations) came to be held together by screws, bolts and nuts. Their shape and kind were in chaos. In 1861 the Franklin Institute got together a group of engineers who adopted the design of William Sellers as the standard U.S. screw thread. Without it, the unified U.S. railway system could hardly have been built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: The Turn of the Screw | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...become strong enough to invade the infant's bloodstream, killing it while still in the womb, or causing it to be born with abnormal blood, severe anemia and jaundice. Some such "erythroblastic" babies can be saved by blood transfusions soon after birth. Others are in such bad shape that nothing can be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Baby Saver? | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Command performances were agony. Once, playing before Portugal's Queen Amalia, Bauer found the court piano in such bad shape that half the keys stuck. At the Spanish court he had to struggle through a Beethoven sonata while twelve-year-old Alfonso XIII romped about him, and the Infanta Isabella chattered all the way through the piece ("How like Wagner . . . This reminds me of Chopin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Why Be a Pianist? | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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