Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baseball season was officially opened yesterday afternoon in the cage on Soldiers Field when a large squad of diamond aspirants greeted Coach Mitchell for a short session of batting and infield practice. The University and Freshman pitchers and catchers are rapidly rounding into early season shape after two weeks work and should be able to keep pace with the remainder of the squad which was called out for the first time yesterday...
...opening lineup against the bears tonight. Coach Wachter has also decided to start Jones at forward in his first five tonight in place of Leekley, who is over trained and will be given a short rest. Smith, the diminutive Crimson leader, will start the game in better shape than he has been in the last three weeks. The heavy scoring forward has fully recovered from the ankle injury which he received in the Williams game...
...Manhattan drawing room bloomed with soft red light. A company of people, stained with the same grave color, sat staring at a pair of red plush curtains. It was a breathless moment. Once the curtains, brushed from behind by a moving shape, vaguely stirred, and then an excited whisper rippled over the red room and vanished in diminishing circles of sound, as if a crumb had been dropped into a pool of claret...
Last week was a sort of contraceptive week against the creation of huge mergers. The Government took steps to prevent the formation of two different food-products combines. A third food proposition fell through. On the other hand, certain amalgamations in other lines continued to take definite shape...
...seas this year, as two foreigners come to assault the American supremacy in this event. Hoff, world's pole vault record holder, and all-around Norwegian athlete, has decided to try his luck in the middle distance. He has been spending his training season at Dartmouth, getting into shape for the big meets. He is, besides, said to be an experienced ski-jumper, but did not go in for this sport while at Hanover because of the risk of injury...