Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...construction proceeds apace on the new buildings in the Yard and as plans for the new Business School take more definite shape, the wondering student is apt to reflect on the state of the present buildings of the University. Ugly many of them are, and dirty. The janitors who clean the class rooms seem to have gone on a sympathetic and perpetual strike with the goodies who are supposed to clean the studies. But if the dirt were carried, out of the buildings, it would only add to the swirling clouds of dust which arise from the untidy gravel walks...
...opinion of many students of business, these large sums have sufficed to put U. S. roads generally in very good physical shape; the ease with which the roads have handled a record traffic this fall is cited as proof...
There have been too many theories and too much talk about the Olympic Games. Try to make them what they are not, turn them over to the idealists and the newspapers, and the idealists and the newspapers will torture them out of their natural shape as they have tortured everything that has fallen into their clutches. Let them alone, to be nothing more than good sportsmanship with a little "blowing off of steam" to add zest, and they will continue to thrive-and to bring about good results in their own natural time
Pelham's puzzle is rectangular in shape, featuring the word JUDGE in bold black letters, with "Ha Ha" rampant on a checked background in the corners. An unusual feature is two unkeyed words, each with a single letter, which gives the puzzle an unusually bizarre aspect...
...appeared as though the adapters (Jules Eckert Goodman and Edward Knoblock) were chiefly concerned with success. They pulled the plot out of shape and hung the whole evening on a severe seduction scene. A French cocotte pretty nearly undresses on the stage in order to disturb the hero to the point of incontinence. Curiously enough, the opening night audience found this episode laughable. Their findings rather wrenched the authors' purposes...