Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Landini. She is the one who gets the bullet. All the husbands are suspected. So are a maid, her husband who liked Landini, a jeune fille whose scarf was around Landini's neck, an old Chinese servant who speaks rudely. A peculiar circumstance : on two cigaret boxes of identical shape but different color, the covers have been inter changed...
Before signing the $2,122,000.000 Relief Bill, President Hoover issued a statement thanking "leaders of both political parties" for putting the measure into "effective shape." Declared the President...
...group of peaceful citizens into a crowd of bloodthirsty madmen also affects the grasshopper-mob psychology. In Pretoria, South Africa, Dr. Faure collected a lot of solitary grasshoppers. He picked all colors, brown, green, grey, soil-tinted and put them together in a cage. Soon they began to change shape and color. They became more active. Their body heat rose. Their appetites increased. In successive molts they continued to change color until all were black-&-yellow-the age-old color of plague locusts. No longer were they playful, harmless. They fought for food. They had become in every respect...
Although it is expected that 1932 gasoline demand will show a decrease from last year-the first recession ever recorded -the industry last week was in better shape than for some time. From last summer's lows of around 20? per bbl. petroleum has risen slowly until last week, when it stood at 86?. Still a critical factor is the prodigious East Texas field, now 20 months old. Its production is controlled by the Texas Railroad Commission. Last week 160 new wells were completed in this field, bringing the total to 5,442. Its average daily flow...
...Leverton's car. Flowers follow, and Mr. Leverton follows the flowers. Just when Etta has succeeded in arousing Mr. Leverton's interest (he is a wealthy theatrical man), Stocky barges into the room. Mr. Leverton has interests other than professional, cannot take his eyes off Stocky's luscious shape. Though both girls are then & there employed, there follows an uncivil war between them for Mr. Leverton. Everything seems to be militating against Etta until Mr. Leverton discovers that she understands him. He asks her help in finishing a play. Wedding bells ensue...