Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first lineup intact today and appears sure that this team will face Harvard. A second backfield, composed of Ewing, Bridges, Weekes, and Beares, seems likely to replace the first quartet of Caulkins, Slagle Dignan, and Gilligan. Weekes has been out with an injury but will probably be in shape by Saturday...
...played checkers with (and beat) one of them, lifted weights (a corresponding increase in Margery's weight being observed when he did so), rang a bell-and disappeared when the lights went up. During his "presence," the observers beheld strange luminosities about the medium and a translucent material shape, like an arm, cold and clammy (said one) "as an eel's heel," was seen, measured (against a radium-painted board) and felt. Warned that violence to this "emanation" would seriously injure the entranced medium, none of those present employed the obvious investigatory stratagem of seizing the ghostly...
...pastimes of their salad days. To dance the Esmeralda in a Gibson hat, to pedal with ballooning skirts on a bicycle built for two, to play blindman's buff in midnight conservatories during dance intermissions-these are diversions that little become a shrunken or a wadded shape. Yet when a woman's sport is a man's sport-golf, for instance-she may become it like a man even after 20 or 40 years, as the players in the U. S. Senior Women's Golf Championship proved last week. Harassed by a high wind that swept...
...therefore, to learn that the New York Football Giants, a professional team, have found it necessary to hire a cheer leader and band for their home games. The public, of course, is accustomed to taking its football with a good deal of seltzer in the shape of organized noise, and if sport enthusiasts are to be enticed into transferring their favor from college to professional games, nothing should be spared to make them feel at home...
That the sword of Damocles, in the shape of a pile of bricks weighing nearly a ton, hung for years over the heads of two University officials was discovered when Massachusetts Hall was recently renovated...