Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...north end of the storm cloud a thin writhing black column of a waterspout. In a few seconds, as we watched, it grew into a black, whirling corkscrew at least 600 feet high and probably 50 feet or more in diameter. ... As it grew in size ... it took the shape and appearance of a great snake, spray and mist rising in clouds from where its tail lashed the sea. Yet its writhing edges were clean-cut as a broad band of black ribbon. ... It was exactly seven minutes from the time the spout first formed until it faded into...
...quiet on the Southern Front. People who say they know promise a nice little diversion in the shape of a brand new war within a comparatively few years. Mr. Mussolini, is a pessimist with no faith in human nature and with a lot of delusions about the Roman Empire which lie conceives, so Professor Binkley of Smith College reports, as never really having fallen at all but merely experiencing a temporary lapse. The great Roman of modern times, when he is not busy dodging the bullets of eight year old would-be assassins, is occupied not with idealistic notion about...
...camp, have been rowing late in the afternoon, often coming in several hours later than would be possible on the Charles. With so much time at his disposal and a squad free from the distractions of Cambridge life, Coach Whiteside has a splendid opportunity to whip his eights into shape before the crucial regatta on June...
...reports were that the original locust offensive had been checked in Egypt, but a second wave was expected when eggs deposited in billions by locusts now dead should hatch. At each lay a single female locust deposits 8,000 eggs in a glutinous egg sac about the size and shape of an ordinary druggist's capsule...
...seating of the Jayvees are forthcoming. Practice this week so far has been extremely stiff; the first and second boats have been going over long stretches at a high stroke, and racing in time trials over two-mile distances. Coach Whiteside is evidently whipping his boats into shape for this week's races, and sparing no pains in the process...