Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cave in on him any day now. The man from Kentucky had tried and was still trying to be optimistic about his sagging emergency housing program. He still insisted that the U.S. could build 1,200,000 new veterans' homes in 1946. But the program's sorry shape was plain...
Died. Herbert George Wells, 79, Britain's prolific writer on any-&-every subject, fanciful and often accurate prognosticator of the shape of things to come; in London (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Despite its two-hour length, "Caesar and Cleopatra" never begins to take shape. At every moment it seems as if the action and dialogue might move towards some unity, and then the cameral swings back to the spectacle of a thousand exotic extras milling in the shadow of a fabulous temple. The development of Caesar, the materialist with an idealistic end, comes in snatches of crisp Shavian dialogue, but the entire effect is uneven and erratic. As the Roman conqueror, Claude Rains is excellent. He plays his part with intelligence and a calmness unmoved by the grandeur about him. Vivian...
...rector, handsome, white-haired Big Ed will be kind of chairman of the board of the university, while President John Lloyd Newcomb, 64, continues to shape educational policy...
...Last week No. 1 was running under its own power and producing three cars an hour. This snail's pace, said production men, would gradually be stepped up to 60 an hour by October. Meanwhile, the No. 2 line (two more are planned) was already taking shape...