Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing America believes: only through education can a people rise to greatness. You, Sir, looking back through three-score years of rewarded effort, have lived to see your influence, which transformed the little College of Harvard into a great University, gradually transcend those ample limits and help to shape a nation's destiny. In that nation, your record shall stand beside the names of those who founded the Republic, made it secure, and led it forward toward new heights of happiness and truth. In a life which has far outrun the ancient limit of the Psalmist, you have not ceased...
...plans of the Norwegian Roald Amundsen for a North Pole flight are taking shape. His aide will be an American-Lieutenant Ralph E. Davison, detailed for this duty by the U. S. Naval Air Service. Recently married, Mrs. Davison begged her husband that she be allowed to accompany him on a novel honeymoon. By a fortunate compromise, she will go with him to Pisa. Italy, where Amundsen's planes are under construction by Dornier, famed German designer, and from there to Spitzbergen, Norway. The expedition (set for July) plans to explore the territory between Spitzbergen, Norway, and Point Barrow...
...intended to bring these men back to an equal footing with their classmates, with regard to work successfully accomplished. And with the improvement of scholarship in mind, the curtailing of outside activities, such as athletics or publication work is amply justified. But the imposition of extra burdens in the shape of more rigid discipline--and of higher standards, is hardly logical. Any advance toward re-during the added difficulties of the man on probation will be warmly welcomed...
...spite of a disastrous season, a strong spirit of optimism pervades the squad. They are in good shape physically and will be able to present their strongest line-up when the whistle blows for the game to begin tonight...
...small extent, the current confusion in business and the difficulty of predicting how affairs will shape themselves later this year, are attributable to the uncertainty regarding tax measures to be enacted by the present Congress...