Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stan Priddy, Goodie Harding, and Dartmouth's '47 front line trio, Ralph Warburton, Bruce Mather, and Bruce Cunliffe to play hockey after college without becoming professionals. Brown gave Garrison use of the Garden for a month before the coach's departure for Europe, that the A.H.A. might get in shape for the Olympics...
Historic Night. Palomar's 200-inch telescope is all but complete now, with the big mirror in place. There is still much tinkering to be done. The mirror, slightly flexible, is supported by 36 complicated gadgets to keep it accurately in shape as the telescope changes its position. Each support contains 1,100 parts, and each will need expert adjustments before it works correctly. So will other mechanisms...
...process was comparatively painless for the team, which begins to shape up now as a threat in the Eastern League struggle. Ted Norris added another feather to his well-plumed cap by cracking the Annapolis pool record for the 440, as he led teammate Larry Miner home in 4:54.5, nine-tenths of a second under the old record...
Restless Artist Giacometti was troubled by the fact that he couldn't do all his job at once. If he started on the tip of the nose, the rest of the face would lose shape and perspective. "The distance between one side of the nose and the other," he wrote, "is like the Sahara." Later, in an effort to grasp the whole, his sculptures began to shrink until they became so small that they would fall apart at the touch of his knife. Finally, his figures began to seem real to him only when they were long and slender...
...between all the Eastern European states, he said, would be followed by customs unions, and after that-"when the time is ripe our peoples will decide whether it shall be a federation or a confederation of states, and they also shall decide the moment when it will take the shape of a state." Candidates for inclusion in the new state, as listed by Dimitrov: Bulgaria, Albania, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia "and even Greece...