Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pursued it further than the laboring man who knows how to order a meal in English. The language is common property. The man who develops his manner of using it to the plane of art may use tools that are more finely tempered, but they are of the same shape as those employed by the most commonplace writer. Words must give the thought its visible form. So the man who aspires to write with grace and distinction tries to create an artificial separation. It should last long enough to give him the feeling that he is working in a medium...
...these days of strict scrutiny of mankind hardly a thing exsists in regard to which some one does not cry, "Something ought to be done about it!" The latest wrinkle in reforms has been brought to light by Le Figaro in the shape of a conference at Amsterdam to do something about the severely detrimental economic effects of rheumatism. The statisticians of this gathering have discovered that by limbering up the world three million days would be saved annually; they have the will to accomplish this result, "mais comment?" as Le Figaro concludes...
...Saturday that started the game against Princeton is unsettled. That the line will be the same is fairly certain. Look's playing in the Princeton game seemed to give him first call on the center position and all other linemen came out of that contest in first class shape so that there will probably be no change...
...statement that all members of the squad will be ready for the Yale game was confirmed last night by Dr. T. K. Richards '15. He added that there were hopes of having every man in shape for Saturday's engagement with Brown...
...declaration of Herodotus that "neither heat nor cold nor sun nor rain nor gloom of night shall stay these carriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," which is emblazoned in the stonework of the New York Post Office. "This is fine work for keeping a man in shape," declared Jack. "I haven't missed a day yet," he added with Hibernian earnestness, "and I don't ever intend to miss...