Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play two weeks ago when they swamped the Lancers in the first match of the season. The Crimson riders have been practicing twice a week in the Armory and the ponies which were in poor condition at the opening of the indoor league competition have begun to round into shape...
...this," he went on, "because of necessity our future supply organization must be so built that, like a rubber band, it can in a moment be stretched to a hundred times its size without breaking under the strain. It must be just as effective in the new shape as in the old, and must carry a heavier load at every point. It must be kept alive in times of peace, so that it may not succumb to dry-rot. Incidentally, it has had a very active life in the past few years, trying to stretch itself to cover the many...
...Naval expedition -making ready balloons, dirigibles and airplanes for aerial observations. Soon after lunch on Jan. 14 their three important minutes came to these men. Cables began whisking the news back to civilization. The objectives and seeming successes of science had been: Data for determining the structure, shape, temperature, motion (if any) and "coronium" (unknown constituent element) of the flame-fringed corona-good photographs obtained with cameras up to 62 ft. long. Data to check Einstein's theory of "bent light," obtainable by photographing stars near the sun with a twin-lens camera- doubtful photographs taken. Data on lunar...
...learns to drink, spoon and wench. His mind takes the shape of a pinchbeck, free-lunch conquistador's. He borrows a car, skids into a tight situation, scurries from town like a rodent...
...hour later the shape returned to the field, gliding softly down through the twinkling myriads of snow. The creature's masters left their perches beneath her helium-filled belly. They reported that their charge, the RS-1, sole semirigid* dirigible in the U. S. and largest in the world, had conducted herself most gracefully on her frost-christened maiden flight. Aloft there had been an elevenmile wind, through which she had glided at 40 m. p. h. in steady circles over her abode...