Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state of complete collapse. A petition circulated among members for a three day holiday, Good Friday, the intervening Saturday and Easter Monday, appeared to find more brokers fascinated by the profits of 4,000,000 share sessions than worried by the danger of physical ruin. Every "record" of any shape or description was broken and rebroken...
...pies could continue to compete with patented Esquimo pies. Explained Judge Campbell: Ice cream and candy had been coated with chocolate long before 1921 (for example, chocolate creams). In 1907, one Val Miller had written a book in which he told how to make "cannonballs," a confection differing in shape only from Esquimo pies (rectangles). "I can see no invention in merely changing the shape...
...Mesozoic times, contemporaneously with the dinosaurs on land, the seas swarmed with these reptiles, sometimes reaching 30 feet in length. They developed a true fish shape, together with front and hind paddles, and some of them had a fish-shaped tail and dorsal fin. Their jaws were long and armed with many sharp-pointed, conical teeth. So numerous were these animals that in the Mesozoic Age they ruled the sea, and even the sharks had difficulty competing with them...
...city received a letter from a guest to the effect that a bellboy had refused to get him any refreshment more satisfactory than grape juice in spite of all inducements. Very emphatically, if a trifle ungrammatically, he replied: "Sorry, sir, I can't help you out in no way, shape or form." Fortunately the manager recognized virtue at its true worth and held a ceremony at which the youth was given a gold medal and several speeches of commendation...
...University nine is rapidly assuminb shape. W. W. Lord '28, who in the last two years has already been moved from two positions, appears to have solved the problem of a catcher. J. P. Chase '28, although he has only been out several days, seems to fill the second base berth. As outfield practice will be impossible until the team gets outdoors, Captain H. W. Burns '28 is playing at shortstop...