Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breadth and scope of this coming tendency is the number of prominent American bankers, business men and government officials who have this summer gone abroad to "study conditions." It is generally agreed that the opportunities for profit are large. European manufacturing plants, especially in Germany, are reported in good shape. Labor is highly trained, abundant and heartily sick of Bolshevism, provided that employment at fair rates can be obtained. Most practical business men are fully aware of the fact that when industry is sound and lacks only capital to prosper, the investor who provides the last dollars needed secures...
...culvert the Carabinieri saw a decomposed body, a file sticking in its breast. The corps was pulled out, and by the contour of a speccialy treated gold tooth, the shape of the head and the high cheekbones, the Carabinieri knew it was the body of Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, reported murdered some two months ago (TIME, June...
...Buffalo, hulking Homer Smith, Kalamazoo heavyweight, spent an evening knocking down Battling Siki, polygamous Sengalese. Next day, Siki's left eye was such a different color from the rest of his face, and of such an unusual shape, that he repaired to the New York Boxing Commission and postponed his en counter with Jock McDonald, sched uled for four days later...
Mayor Hylan read his speech, placing tactless emphasis on minor unpleasantries the Americans had suffered in France. Colonel Robert M. Thompson, Chairman of the American Olympic Committee, corrected this bad impression before the Mayor distributed his City's largesse among the athletes in the shape of gold medals for one and all. That gesture completed the welcome, save for a beefsteak dinner uptown, to which all rushed hungrily...
When a child, lying awake, thinks he sees a horrifying shape in the cor- ner, or hears all night long in the dark and rain a man go riding by, the direct cause of his fear is always slight. Light huddles the darkness in a queer way, or someone has told him a story about highwaymen. It is only the trick of associating a slight concrete thing with a vast intangible one that makes such fear formidable. The fears of children invariably depend on this sort of confused association, Dr. Watson's experiments have shown...