Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apron strings of the Old Lady of Thread-needle Street, pending the arrival of Finance Minister Georges Bonnet. This nimble native of Dordogne, by far the ablest player of Basque pelota in the new Cabinet, will have his work cut out for him to get French finances in shape, but he seemed certain of broad cooperation. Under one of France's new social decrees drafted by Leon Blum and published last week by the Chautemps Cabinet as one of its first acts, the 40-hour week applies to French hotels, and according to their managers this would mean hiring...
...Publicist Arthur Brisbane that high-domed foreheads are a mark of superior intelligence, a mass of evidence has been assembled by scientists to show that, so far as living members of the species Homo sapiens are concerned, no connection can be traced between intellectual ability and the size or shape of the skull. Eskimos have bigger heads than civilized whites but no one argues that they are any smarter. Nevertheless it is a fact that the skull size of man in general has increased with progress up the evolutionary scale, and anthropologists are greatly interested in the normal range...
...nothing but optimism. It can be predicted with confidence that no matter how the passage of time may direct events into unknown and uncharted seas, there will always be opportunity for men of ability. And with this ability, it should be possible for the young men of Harvard to shape their destinies. For it is to these men that the union in general and the University in particular will look for support in the years to come. There can perhaps be no better words with which to send off a graduating class than the motto carved on the back...
...party arrived in the middle of the afternoon on a day when three tarpon had been caught at Port Isabel and none at Port Aransas-when weather conditions along the entire coast were unfavorable. But, by the following morning the water was in perfect shape and tarpon were there for the catching. President Roosevelt, however, sailed away at the break of day without making any effort to catch a tarpon, probably steered northward again by the Port Aransas guide who accompanied him South...
...casual observer, the Hall of Mirrors in Cincinnati's Hotel Netherland Plaza might have been mistaken for a hat factory last week. Six long tables littered with headgear-straws of every shape, felts of every color-stretched like assembly lines the length of the room. The long lines of men who sat along both sides of the tables were assembling not hats but a plan of campaign against their rival brothers of toil. They were the representatives of 102 national and international unions,* members of the A. F. of L. They had been called together by the Federation...