Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plans have also been made for two new roads through the Harvard holdings, Getchell announced. One will follow a straighter path than that taken by the road leading from the site of the new Freshman quarters, while the second, in the shape of a "U", will connect the main highway and the right of way leading to the University quarters...
...planets affect each other as they circle around the Sun and make their orbits slightly irregular. It was man's mathematical ability to measure such orbital variations that permitted Astronomer Lowell to declare that an unknown planet was butting Neptune's orbit out of its regularly irregular shape and to predict just where in the heavens a sufficiently powerful telescope, which did not exist during his life, would reveal...
...Geki is far easier for Occidentals to understand than the hoary dramatic rituals of China, in which scarcely any scenery is employed and such an apparently unimportant factor as the shape of a false beard may indicate the character of its wearer. In Koi-No- Yozakura (Romance in Cherry Blossom Lane) a sculptor creates the image of a dancing girl which comes to life and dances with him when he places a mirror, the Japanese symbol of a woman's soul, next to her heart. The speech is naturally modulated, emotions are patent on the faces, the scenery...
...describing this meteorite, Luyten reports, "The first impression that one gets of the meteor, seeing it from a distance, is not too overwhelming, but this changes when one gets close to it. It is an enormous block of metal, almost rectangular in shape, of dimensions nine by ten feet, and a thickness varying from two and a half to almost four feet. When first found only a small part protruded above the limestone; since then a pit has been dug all around it which shows the full extent of the meteor on all sides. On the northeastern side...
...Freshmen will practice strokes indoors until the courts are in shape, which will probably not be until after the spring vacation. The competition for the managership will last until May 10, two weeks before the match with Yale, the winner going to New Haven with the team...