Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seventy remaining men will be whipped into shape for a scrimmage with the University team on Wednesday after which the seventy will be cut down to 45. The squad will remain at this size throughout the year, keeping the same men, except for minor shifts from the class teams...
...Lisbon, Portugal in 23 days and won the King's Cup. He was Commodore of the New York Yacht Club for three years and served on a submarine chaser during the War. At all his amusements he works hard. He went into training last spring to be in shape to sail Enterprise. He smokes a pipe, seldom drinks. On Vara, in Newport, he does calesthenics on deck in pajamas. After breakfast he goes aboard Enterprise, wearing a business suit and a felt hat. to supervise the daily tinkering with the rigging. In the rain he wears a yellow slicker...
...those see-saw matches that make tennis doubles the finest sport in the world to watch. Tilden did most of the work for his side until Lott & Doeg broke through his serve in the first game of the fifth set. Tilden's long shape seemed to grow hollower after that. When he scored, he regained a momentary spryness, but when he erred his bad hip hurt him, and he rested on his racquet between shots. Lott & Doeg ran out the match, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 9-n, 6-2. In the finals they ran through Allison...
...came to the Temple to help Sister because the business affairs were getting out of hand. ... I told Sister, 'I'll be the Mussolini of business and you handle the religion.' I worked things into good shape at once but I made enemies of some of Sister's friends. We had a number of arguments and then one day she called me into her office. She was furious and after some words she struck me on the nose...
...After touring the U. S. in vaudeville acts he became a Manhattan headliner in the Vanities. In his house at Lake Hopatcong, N. J., resting on a silver standard, is a baseball which Babe Ruth has not autographed. On his private golf course is a green built in the shape of a cone so that any guest can make a hole in one. He is shy, likes speedboating, collects mementoes, is admired by stagehands...