Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid $17,000. Jack Dempsey got off with $285, possibly because he gave the Association prestige by posing before newscameras with two of its operators. Profits from the racket were $2,000,000 per year-all of which, by regular racket custom, was presumably paid by patrons in the shape of higher prices for food and drink. Union members were victimized no less than proprietors and patrons. Their racketeering officers called strikes solely for shakedown purposes, after which strikers were sent back to work usually with their pockets empty, no benefits won. All these charges, the prosecutor promised, would...
...list of pocket-sized monthly magazines on the U. S. newsstand, a newcomer was added this week in the shape of Commentator, with Radio's Commentator Lowell Thomas billed as editor-in-chief. Backer-in-chief was Charles Shipman Payson, the tall, rusty-haired Manhattan lawyer whom Jock Whitney's sister Joan married. His ambition to be a publisher appears to have been fired by the thought that the commentators of radio probably had facts & opinions to give the world which radio's timorous self-censorship bottles up before the microphone...
This year, however, the track team has been practicing pretty steadily during the reading and examination periods, and it is expected that the runners will be in good shape for their races...
...whole show in the part of De Witt, the oldest and saltiest Dutchman. For years cast as a theatrical cop or robber, Actor Brown comes into his own at last when, in pantaloons and a huge hat, he comes to grips with the 20th Century in the shape of a zipper bag full of money and a paper bag full of sandwiches...
...small that its force of gravity was too weak to pull it into anything resembling a sphere. Last week Dr. Henry Norris Russell of Princeton, reading a paper for a Harvard colleague, gave the most probable dimensions of Eros as 22 miles long, seven miles across, and its shape as roughly cylindrical, with rounded ends...