Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louisiana Bundles. "You have no right whatever to stop a person on the street and ask him what he has in a bundle, even though the contents of that bundle take the shape of a bottle. It might be a bottle of something other than liquor," said Judge Louis H. Burns of the U. S. District Court in New Orleans, to the Prohibition agent who arrested one John Masera. When Mr. Masera was accosted on the street by the Prohibition agent, he had quickly smashed his bottle of liquor on the pavement. Judge Burns dropped the charges against Mr. Masero...
...went to the Royal Institute at Milan to study to be an engineer and "an expert businessman." One day, he heard that a Frenchman, Leon Delagrange, had made a six-minute airplane flight.* His dreams suddenly took shape-he would build ships of the air; he would learn to sail them...
...David White '29, and David Guarnaccia '29 were listed among the point scorers at the close of the competition. A. B. Miller '27, who was to start from scratch in the century did not run. The leg which he injured in the Intercollegiates on May 29 is in good shape again but Coach Farrell decided not to run any risk of a recurrence of the former difficulty by sending the Crimson sprint ace into competition before it was necessary...
...apprenticeship as waterboy and brakeman he bears no mark. In the days of pin coupling, brakemen were seldom "set up" as conductors before they had managed to lose a finger or two. Conductor Kennedy's hands and memories are as smooth as a college professor's. The shield-shape perforation which he carefully makes in your ticket, in your presence', is done with the punch he used on his first passenger trip...
...games at Myopia will round the polo team into final shape for the inter-collegiates which begin at Rye on June 16. This tournament will also be a round robin, four games being played against Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania Military Academy...