Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple spelling, Mr. Dewey once wrote: "My sugjestion wud be a first articl as long as yu think wize that wud be folod now and then by short one. . . ." In this sentence, the word "long," instead of ending with an "ng," was terminated by a symbol similar in shape to a Greek "eta," standing for both letters at once, which Mr. Dewey had evidently had mounted specially on his typewriter...
...positive charge of elecricity. It was reversed by charging corroded metal negatively. A cathode or negative electric action set up in corroded objects liberated oxygen from the incrustations and brought them back to their original metallic condition. An ugly gray-green cup of Egyptian bronze rust returned to its shape of a bronze cat and kitten. Old coins revealed names and dates. A statue of Isis shed the rust of 30 centuries from necklace, hair, headdress, garments, finger-and toenails. ? Dr. Colin G. Fink, Columbia University...
...fashions," announced the Fairchild Fashions Publications, last week, "have emerged from the domain of humor." They have, indeed, entered the domain of sport. Every year to Palm Beach go individuals who stare at neckties, note the shape of bathing suits, write home about the length of knickers, the color of hosiery. They are the "beachcombers" of toggery...
While Coach J. W. Gaw was working his Boston University team into shape on a Boston field yesterday afternoon in preparation for the University game which will raise the curtain on the Crimson season this Saturday, Coach Mahan put his progressing aspirants through another of their practice games on Soldiers Field...
Latchet. The rod hit the latchet, which was in the shape of a smart German rejoinder that the demilitarized Rhine zone would be kept demilitarized, but that any question of the Polish boundary was out of place in a proposed treaty dealing with the Rhine frontier...