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Word: shapely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Coach Bill McCurdy pointed out yesterday, it seems unlikely that the Crimson's front-line runners will be in top shape for the Big Three meet...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Harrier Team To Run Today At Dartmouth | 10/25/1957 | See Source »

...Business School soccer field awaits today's M.I.T. game in deathbed shape. Baked bone-dry and brick-hard by the summer sun, and finally drenched by last weekend's rains, the playing field has congealed during the cool nights into a sort of black meringue jello, which makes footing treacherous and accurate ball control a happy accident...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Field Condition May Hurt Soccer Team's Play Today | 10/22/1957 | See Source »

...vitalizes the issues at the same time that-with small talk and small children, dinner-party fiascos and marital spats-it humanizes the atmosphere. What it does not do-what a message play so seldom can do-is to create flesh-and-blood characters who really seem to shape and chart their own lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...impresarios established their first office in a bathroom. A friend had agreed to let them use his tony Manhattan address provided that they kept out of the way, so they installed the phone in a spare bath. In this austere retreat the opera company took shape. Backers were found, some of whom were in the Social Register, and most of them owned awnings. The company's first production was Monteverdi's 300-year-old Coronation of Poppea, performed in a Fifth Avenue drawing room for an audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera for Gourmets | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

This year the ruggers should set their old vanity back. Led by a miscellaneous group of foreign students and several names that might bring relief to the heart of John Yovicsin, the club is in excellent shape for its opening first and second fifteen games against M.I.T. this Saturday...

Author: By Alastair J.C.E. Rellie, | Title: Crimson Ruggers Appear Powerful As Season Opens | 10/18/1957 | See Source »

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