Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their state of decay, gave the Comité $1,000,000. His workmen did a thorough Rockefeller job of repair. Later Mr. Rockefeller gave $2,080,000 more, some of it to restore the War-shelled Cathedral of Reims and to put the château of Fontainebleau in shape...
...stalwart sons were received by King Edward, who dubbed the oily Sheik a Knight Commander of the British Empire. By way of amusement His Highness was taken to the greyhound races at White City. Scrutinizing the dogs, the Sheik said: "I have a system based on the shape of the dog, his shoulder action and muscular development." In each of the eight races of the evening Sheik Sir Hamad followed his "system" to bet upon one dog. Of his eight choices...
Viceroy Graziani meanwhile was busy whipping into shape plans for the Empire's new Government. Top dogs, all Italian, are members of the Council of Government headed by the Viceroy. They are advised by the Board of Consultors composed of six prominent Ethiopian chiefs and six leading Italian emigrant farmers and merchants. In Addis Ababa last week it was believed that some 400,000 of the Italian soldiers and laborers now in Africa will settle there, later bringing out from Italy their families "to colonize these depopulated lands with the fecund Italian race...
...costs be dominated by Britain, so ran the popular dogma and so the British Admiralty has stiffly held. Today, however, with Italy triumphant and formidably facing Suez, London was fast telling itself last week that an alternative route to India must at once be got into safe shape. In this queasy moment it was British and it was brave to get ready to believe that the new Lifeline of Empire is better, stronger and more glorious than the old. It runs clear around Africa, past the ominous Cape, whose storms were once so deadly to sailing ships...
...profit, can declare no dividends, then ingeniously argued: "This case falls in the classification of manufacture and not in interstate commerce. News is manufactured over editorial cables, while Bessemer Steel may be manufactured by the open-hearth process. News comes in as raw material and is put in final shape by editorial employes, and then only does its interstate transmission begin. Not until this process is completed does it become an article in interstate commerce. The rapidity with which news is transmitted does not make it any the less manufacturing...