Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German professor named Farini found Krao in Siam in 1883. Mountaineers declared that the devil in the shape of a baboon had frightened her mother before her confinement. Intrigued by the story and charmed by the gentle manners of the bearded girl, her shy looks and silences, Professor Farini took her to Berlin and had her finely educated. But evil fortune fell on him; he was forced to place his ward in the Brandenburg Dime Museum in Philadelphia, where she was first exhibited...
...practice was cut short because of the cold wind that was sweeping across the Soldiers Field playing field. Coach Mitchell declared himself satisfied with the squad's condition, and with a week of fine weather in the south, he hopes to have his lineup definitely arranged and in good shape for the hard games scheduled during May and June...
...first definite preparations for the initial turn-out of the football aspirants were started yesterday, when the newly called out managerial candidates reported at the Soldier's Field Locker Building. Their work consisted in overhauling the supply room and starting to put the equipment in shape...
Admiral Fiske experimented with Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad, a work of 93,000 words. He had it printed to be read in his reading machine. In its reduced shape, it was a 13-page pamphlet, 3½ inches wide, 5½ inches long. How big will an encyclopedia be when shrunk for the Fiskoscope? No bigger than an ordinary novel. The Oxford Dictionary? A trifling brochure. The works of Balzac, of James Fenimore Cooper, of Thackeray, Scott, James Joyce? Slender dockets. Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf will melt to the thickness of a few packs of cards and those advertisement...
Four Twirlers in Shape...