Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty miles from London stands an historic hill and on it stands an historic Cathedral. Its dark cruciform shape lowers over the countryside, its Norman towers stretch sadly to the sky. It was in the 12th century that workmen first piled stone on stone to fashion the Cathedral of St. Albans. Since then many workmen and architects have rebuilt, altered and toyed, but the Cathedral still stands much as it was first planned by an abbot who wished to honor a martyred saint...
...educated Japanese organic chemist. The two pottered around with sputum, acids, dyes and mediums on which bacteria grow. And eventually they found that sulphuric or hydrochloric acid would best dissolve the elements of the sputum undesirable in isolating the tuberculosis bacteria, that crystal violet dye best brought out the shape of the germs, that they flourished best on a chunk of potato. Now practically every tuberculosis hunter uses their test...
...building will be of quadrangular shape, with three stories totalling 84,000 square feet of floor space, and will be situated on Divinity. Avenue opposite the Peabody Museum. One wing will be unfinished, abutting on the Farlow Herbarium which will be left standing for the present...
...portions of the sky, mines which have been only partially worked, and which still have rich veins awaiting the explorer. For instance a search is being made on Harvard plates for other galaxies than ours. These galaxies, far away from our own Milky Way system, are frequently of spiral shape, and can be readily detected by the careful observer. On photographs taken at Arequipa twenty-five years ago with the Bruce telescope, Miss Ames has found two thousand new galaxies...
...same thing happened. Not until the bluebooks were falling thick and fast on the table could the proctor find anything wrong, and then--just one terrifying stare from the unknown eyes, and the discovery that there was a blue-book too many. the mysterious being could change its shape at will for never did he appear twice in the same form. Once a section man thought he recognized the features of a freshman who had been run over by a trolley car; another swore he saw a man who had been expelled last June. But they were never sure...