Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unlimited opportunities for individual effort and interest is not as a rule appreciated until the Junior or even the Senior year. And then it is often found that the student lacks the prerequisite requirements for the attainmnt of his newly appointed goal, which is more and more taking the shape of the honors degree...
...final completion is taking shape in stone and steel with the work on the second unit in the projected House Plan already under way. The Yard will always be the center of historical Harvard but the day when the "Drang nach Charles" finally reaches its consummation and becomes the active center of the University is not far in the future...
...started he predicted dire calamity awaited it. Informed that it had docked safely in Friedrichshafen, he sulked and refused to issue a statement. Smart Sister Locy was quick to take advantage of this. As a prime Voliva-baiting tactic she nightly challenged him to debate the earth's shape...
Said Writer White: "The Texas Tammany boys not only tell the taxpayers to go to hell, but, out of the goodness of their hearts, provide them with a handy route in the shape of a heavily bonded high- way and a costly toll bridge which lands them right at the very door of the place. A committee of Congressmen went to Hidalgo County and studied the technique of Baker, Creager & Co., when they were ready to remark: 'Well, this is all too fancy for us. Philadelphia at its best was never like this...
Author Hurst's latest contribution to the heterogeneous U. S. saga has to do mainly with a family of Raricks upon whom life brings many blessings in the shape of a chain of 5? & 10? stores. Little weazened Father Rarick acquires the happy faculty of buying hairnets and celluloid balls low and selling them higher builds a 79-story monument to himself, misunderstands his family. His pampered, poetical son, Avery, commits suicide at college because, "it was too much." Mother Rarick bitterly tries to suck romance out of a surreptitious affair with another woman's gigolo, Ramond...