Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glass sponges, monster iguanas (lizards) from Swan Island (300 miles south of Cuba), giant shrimps with pincers like lobsters. The Pawnee had been seeking the rhynodontypicus, a species of leviathan taken near Swan Island in 1912. Among the tales the mariners told was that of a .vast elemental shape the Negroes called "Sapodilla Tom," which surged up beneath the boat, lifted his dorsal and was gone. Off the coast of Honduras, "a great winged, batlike monster" had escaped...
...individual feat of the contest was the half-mile run between Watters of Harvard and Leness, famed Tech mid-distance man. Those, who witnessed the race will not soon forget the astonishing pace the palr set up from the crack of the pistol. Physically both men appeared in excellent shape, but as in all athletic competition physical condition is not all that counts. Undoubtedly Watters ran a more heady race than Leness and consequently he broke the worsted two yards in the lead. The Crimson half-miler took advantage of the Engineer's broad back to shelter him from...
...with the results of human desire in a particular field. Social ethics compares all these desires and traces their results so far as is necessary for a man to orient himself among them and to decide what he, individually and in his group, intends to do about it, what shape his life will take, his life as a producer of wealth, as a friend of men and women, as the father of a family, as a citizen as a member of clubs and teams, as a lover of good literature or of any other art, as one curious about nature...
...have said, when our laws must have the concurrent action of two houses of Congress, when they must be subject to the veto power of the President, and yet again subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States, that a further check was needed in the shape of power, placed in the hands of one Senator, to block all legislation-power that he might sometimes use for his own personal gain...
...your issue of Mar. 23, 1925, Page 18, was an article entitled "For Reference" relating to the shape of the earth. A young man this morning asked me: "Allowing that the suns stands still but that our Earth is revolving around every 24 hours, at night or some time during that 24 hours, why are we not ourselves upside down?" Can you in simple words answer him? H.E. SMITH...