Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flattening the rails under the thrust of its screeching brakes, Bill Elaine's bullet-nosed diesel locomotive ripped through the steel rear Pullman like gutting a catfish and buckled the lighter diner ahead. Said a priest: "I saw bodies . . . decapitated . . . crushed beyond human shape." The total death toll...
...Juniors and Seniors are excused from exercise because they presumably are physically mature, academically busy, and socially adjusted. Veterans are in equally good shape, and their academic burdens, after several years' absence from lectures and blue books, are fully as great as those of upper classmen, sliding along smoothly in their scholastic grooves. All that remains, then, is the misassumption that veterans, like non-veteran Freshmen, need an added stimulus to find recreation and meet people. Months of community living have removed all vestiges of the hermit instinct from most ex-service men. They know how to go about meeting...
...very similar to that of a hare, and it eats grain, vegetables and grass. It is especially fond of alfalfa. The eggs that the female fur-fowl lays are soft-shelled like the eggs of a turtle or a snake, but, instead of being round or elliptical in shape, the fur-fowl eggs are hexahedral...
...Cummings, and Wally Flynn, and guards Sidney Smith and Charley Gudaltis, together with '42 center Jack Fisher, who has already returned, should add experienced punch to the line. Add standout wartime tackles Chester Pierce and Johnny Coan, and guards Ned Dewey and Mal Allen, and the line begins to shape...
...long last, Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt, who wants 2,700,000 new housing units built in the next two years, took drastic steps to implement his hope. In a sweeping order which will change the whole shape of the U.S. building industry, he put a stop to all "nonessential" construction, directed that all building materials should go instead to housing for veterans...