Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years Dr. Guarducci and her sister Maria pored over the strange crisscross of signs and letters in the grottoes beneath the altar, comparing them with those in the catacombs in and near Rome. Gradually, the searchers began to find significant repetitions, and meanings began to take shape...
Recent reports that the earth may be pear shaped are disquieting. The change in Terra's shape might be invoked as a reason for preparing for Judgement Day, stopping atom bomb tests, or continuing the study of geography at Harvard. As of now there are no plans to replace the visiting professor of geography, Henry C. Darby, when he leaves; the Administration claims among other reasons for this, the difficulty of finding men in the field who are up to the University's standards of scholarship...
...roll call of Japan's wealthiest families, instead of to the Gakushuin (Peers' School), which is reserved mainly for the descendants of the blue-blooded kazoku families. Sacred Heart was a congenial place, long on over-politeness. Comments a Sacred Heart graduate: "The aim was to shape us all into spotless and expensive pieces of jewelry, and Michiko got the same treatment as the rest." Though the school was Roman Catholic, Michiko remained a Buddhist...
...nuclear engine, the Skipjack is the consummation of a long program to give the U.S. its first true submersible designed primarily for underwater work. Conventional diesel-electric submarines spend most of their time on the surface, are long and slender with sharp bows and flat decks. Submerged, their unstreamlined shape produces high drag, and their feeble, short-lived storage batteries push them along at a sedate, one-horse-shay speed. Even nuclear subs, whose main engines need no air and can operate at full power underwater, are timid compromises with tradition so far. The first Nautilus has a vestigial...
...Behrman (a violin also entered Mr. Behrman's piece for a while). There were row structures, not so elaborate as Wolff's, but complicated enough to be hardly perceptible. The avant-garde leader Boulez would tell us that structure has gone underground. But does this subterreanean structure really give shape to a piece, or does it happen accidentally, or not at all? In a short composition like Baldwin's it is easier to give a sense of cohesiveness; this piece, rather aptly titled Conversations with Gryllus in August, was a collection of handsome sounds. Behrman's delicious piece contained several...