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Word: shapes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Center Warren Winslow, left winger Forbes Perkins, and right winger Skip Ervin shape up as the number one Crimson offensive unit. They have been playing on the first line ever since serious practice started and are almost certain to face off against St. Nicks next Saturday. Stacey Hulse at center, Dave Eaton at left wing, and Jack Willetts at right wing have formed the second forward trie thus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoddermen Need Experience as First Hockey Game With St. Nicks Looms | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

...backboards on the Athletic Building floor was the convex type, much smaller than the regular board and slightly curved to allow a better view of the basket by a player shooting from the corner of the floor, while the other was the regulation size and shape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOPSTERS TUSSLE IN DEMONSTRATION GAME | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--Conservative Democrats and Republicans in Congress to-night prepared for a determined campaign at the coming session to slice millions from the government spending program for the next fiscal year, now being whipped into shape by President Roosevelt and his financial experts...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/28/1939 | See Source »

...unrivaled. A believer in eclecticism if not in consecutive growth, Picasso himself knows why he is always changing. Says he: "The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. That is why we must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it-except from our own works. I have a horror of copying myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Protean Pablo | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...English composition course--and yet keep it divorced from the stage--is like reading chemistry without carrying on laboratory experiments. Playwrights like Sidney Howard, Eugene O'Neill and Philip Barry thrived under Professor Baker because the workshop tested their lines through informal productions and moulded them into shape; the designers and artists translated their sets and costumes from empty drawings to reality. Each phase developed with the others and each was thereby reinforced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GATEWAY TO BROADWAY | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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