Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mensendieck prefers the pawing step, because it "strengthens the legs, improves their shape and has a permanently beneficial effect on the arches," compels full extension of the knees, keeps the groin taut, and "being measured and controlled, is the flowing and beautiful step." Last week meticulous Dr. Mensendieck, 60, wearied from compiling her new manual of functional postures, shunning the kudos she expected its publication will bring upon her, rusticated in southern France. She lives alone. Once she had a husband, who died shortly after their marriage. As close-mouthed about her personal life as she is loquacious about...
Satisfied that he has a good idea of the Freshman material that has been working for a week, Harlow is anxious to see how they shape up alongside the veterans. The Freshman drills have run with smoothness and with satisfactory results...
...Glenn had quite a high school record when he came to K.U.", Jimmie went on to say, "but when he was put under my care his legs were in pretty bad shape. He had one of the worst cases of shin splints I have ever handled. He didn't do much of anything those first two years, and Glenn has oftened issued the statement that the only exercise he got in his Freshman and Sophomore years was on my rubbing table. Ever since then I have been his trainer and he comes to me whenever I am anywhere around...
...true, that the present cues are in various states of degeneration, but there is a movement on foot to replace these with new ones, and when the time comes for the members of the Class of '40 to descend upon the Houses, this department ought to be in ship shape...
...present when Ogareff has his eyes roasted. The roasting produces no bad effects because Ogareff's mistress (Margot Grahame), who has fallen in love with the courier while shadowing him, bribes the executioner to do it inefficiently. Nonetheless, by the time he reaches Irkutsk, Michael is in terrible shape. His clothes are torn to ribbons and it is all he can do to jump on a horse and rescue the town from the Tartars, practically singlehanded...