Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Carolina for a week's practice on one of the finest courses in the nation. The team has had no real practice save for a few sessions in Dillon, practicing drives. Coach Harold Williams feels that the trip will afford the team an excellent opportunity to get in shape for the regular season...
...they had in common was absolute confidence in Stanley. As for Stanley, his sense of responsibility for his men was so close to love as to be a military weakness. He understood them too well, made too many allowances for them, took it on himself to try to shape their characters. This time there was too much stacked against him. Between the overwhelming Chinese, the character flaws of his men and his own protectiveness, the patrol ended in a disaster in which heroism and simple humanity were underscored during a brief stretch of nightmarish combat...
...development of these players, and also the whole team, will depend largely on the spring weather and also on the success of the southern trip. If the team can rapidly round into shape over the week-long southern swing and if the weather this spring is conducive to outdoor play, Barnaby feels that the squad could produce the best tennis seen at the College in many years...
...paper, we're in wonderful shape now as far as time is concerned," she said. "But by Sunday we might be ten minutes over. There's no way of telling about the timing. Alistair (Alistair Cooke, the show's regular emcee who arrived in town Thursday night to speak to the Nieman Fellows) has done the show long enough so that he knows exactly what a minute is. But the other people on the show won't. That's why we need to rehearse so much...
...chairman of a commission to study school crowding for the National Education Association, he reported that high schools "still are in pretty good shape." Anderson, who is also director of the University's Elementary School Apprentice Teaching, called the elementary school system "badly over-crowded...