Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...soccer team will play the Celtic Association Football Club, of Worcester, in the first game of the season at Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. While the team has only been together for two weeks, the material is very good, and they are beginning to round into shape and show some team-work. Many of the players practiced together all fall, and the team is beginning to show the results. The weak point of the team just at present is their shooting. The team will line-up as follows: l.o.f., Boyden; l.i.f., Talbot; c.f., Hughes; r.i.f., Lyman (Moffat...
...Yale stadium committee have abandoned all hope of having the new stadium ready by next fall, and it will not be in shape until the Harvard-Yale game in 1914. The reason for the delay is a possible change of plan regarding the advisability of submerging the stadium. Although a very remarkable drainage plan has been submitted which would make the field dry within half an hour after a storm, its execution would require a huge amount of excavation, and would leave no space for locker rooms. The final decision regarding the matter has not yet been made...
...that first love affair of David Copperfield's, when Miss Shepherd, whom the Misses Nettingall outrageously stood in the stocks for turning in her toes, Miss Shepherd to whom as a token of affection he gave twelve Brazil nuts, "difficult to pack into a parcel of any regular shape; hard to crack even in room doors... and oily when cracked," was mistress of his heart. "At home, in my own room," David writes, "I am sometimes moved to cry out, 'Oh, Miss Shepherd!' in a transport of love." "Oh" isn't definite, but it may be very expressive...
...built of steel and concrete, will seat about 50,000 people and will be erected at an approximate cost of $300,000. It will be situated on ground adjoining University Field, which is owned by the university, and the stand will be oval, open at one end, similar in shape to the Harvard Stadium...
...building is located in the rear of the University Museum, facing north. It is rectangular in shape, 40 feet wide by 72 feet in length. The general appearance of the structure is in keeping with the older Harvard buildings and the colonial type of architecture has been followed out in the exterior design. The base of the building is built of granite blocks and the three upper stories of dull Harvard brick with limestone trimmings. A limestone cornice adds the necessary finish to the front of the building. The structure is three stories high, with a basement all but three...