Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winner or take places: Bocher of Germany, EK quist of Finland, Jorgenson of Norway, Martin of Switzerland, and Svenson of Sweden Besides Hahn the menon whom America will probably depend should in clude the New York Athletic Club winners Leness, Proudstock, and Helfrich, the latter if he is in shape. Men from whom starters will also be picked will be McCloskey of the Boston Athletic Association. Soper of New York' City and Dodge and Walson of the Illinois Athletic Club...
Continuing, he said. "The entire atmosphere of our criminal courts can be changed by our state legislatures. They should not be allowed to throw aside the tools that intelligent and thoughtful men have prepared in the shape of much needed reforms in procedure, as the legislature of Missouri recently did with the Missouri Crime Survey...
Beside the shadowy Spirit bulks the heavier black shape of the great Ford-Stout monoplane in which Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh is presently to fly back to her Detroit schoolroom after the family Christmas. Mother and son stand together for a moment, bidding farewell. Col. Lindbergh shakes hands with Gen. Alvarez who brought to him the good-byes of President Plutarco Elias Calles...
...ultimate results of the Reading Period will be determined by each individual--each man constituting in his own case the best judge. A concrete test will come in the shape of the mid-year and final examinations. But even now, after five days' trial of the plan, one thing has been proved: the halls of learning have not been deserted in wholesale fashion. Whatever else has happened, reading is being done Whether that reading is accomplishing any permanent results is a question for the future. But anyone who doubts the ability of the undergraduate to rise voluntarily before...
...students about to embark on an engineering career seems an excellent one, and an importance advance in post-graduate service for universities. "It is not intended that a graduate shall secure a position for a student,": says the announcement, "but rather that he will help the student to shape successfully his career." The graduates of at least ten years' standing, successful business men who have volunteered to help, are available in sufficient numbers. The only possible thwarting of the plan might come from a failure of the undergraduate, upon whom the success of an advisory system working through correspondence depends...