Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This, of course, was the kind of soothing lingo in which cowhands indulge just before they press down the branding iron. The real fashion message for fall appeared in bolder type. It said, quite simply: GET YOURSELF A NEW SHAPE. And if they wanted to buy the new fall dresses, that is exactly what U.S. women would have to do-with the help of pads, laces, stays and whalebone, if necessary...
...Makerere College set out to make his own symbol. Gregory Maloba, 19, had some tribal lore in the back of his head, little knowledge of any other art tradition. Death, he thought, should be "not unkind but inscrutable." Out of a three-foot mahogany log, he carved a horned shape of power (see cut). Maloba's Death did no grinning, whispering, or shoulder-tapping; the Shape stood pityingly behind its victim, and crushed...
Americans who shared the dream of a new Asia could, in a troublous week, remember how Hamilton and Lincoln died, and how laden with hatred were the decades in which the American dream took shape...
...invention: a new method of shooting an "aimed injection" of a healing drug at a given organ of the body. His method (which he did not make entirely clear to U.S. doctors) involves varying the molecular pattern of the drug. Dr. Degkwitz first crystallizes the drug in a shape and size that fits into the organ at which it is aimed. When the drug is in the form of needle-shaped crystals, for example, the crystals after injection into a vein go straight to the lungs. Round crystals of various sizes, says Degkwitz, can be deposited at will...
...were still too high. Exports, which had done much to ward off any recession, were bound to fall off by year's end. But inventories had been brought into reasonable balance, credit buying was again within healthy bounds, and things in general, said the report, were in excellent shape...