Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About a post his manly shape...
Janitors were routed out. Feverishly they put the great hall of the Sejm in shape for a meeting. Meanwhile jangling telephones roused Deputies from their beds, brought them scurrying. When all was ready Marshal Pilsudski strode in, obviously in the best of humors. Mounting the tribune he made one of those booming patriotic speeches beloved of Poles. His major theme: "Conditions in Europe at the present time do not warrant the abolition of armaments, and so long as there is the necessity for an army we might as well have a good...
...William Roedel, elevator man at the Capitol Theatre, is five feet, six inches tall, and weighs 256 pounds. He is something of a landmark in the theatrical district. His passengers sometimes have to bend themselves into the shape of a crescent-" More than one newspaper reader stopped reading when he got that far and examined the headband of his newspaper to see if he had not picked up the informal New York World by mistake. But no, it was indeed the New York Times. Strange! Something certainly had come over that fatherly, dignified compendium, something that began perhaps, when...
...true that Dominico Theotocopuli was mad. It is true that he was astigmatic, for one must believe that sanity and sight lie in numbers, and certainly he did not see or think as did any other man of his time. He saw the spirit in the body, shapes of the mind in every earthly shape. Only a few saints and mathematicians have understood as he did; they, too, were mad. Heads in which a cone is buried; elongated muscles and loins growing up through the paint in mystery like weeds or flowers; skies that break, trees that kneel, faces...
Recent reports from Sloane laboratory at Yale reveal that over 20 scientists there are testing the strength of the atom injecting foreign particles into the atom and bending the atom out of shape. Since this invisible unit of matter is the basic substance of which everything is composed, the physicists are really engaged in a study of fundamentals. When the exact nature of the atom is finally ascertained, the results will be of the utmost importance in every field of science...