Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virtually all European States, including an air pact in which England might join; 2) to establish with France and Belgium wholly new demilitarized zones; 3) even to lead Germany back into the League of Nations. At the bottom of this cookie jar was a conditional jagged stone in the shape of intimations that the Great Powers would now be willing to take up the question of restoring to Germany her lost colonies, but the Great Orator's speech subsided with such soft organ notes as these...
...University dramatic societies, has been giving admirable performances of Shaw's "Heartbreak House"; this week the newly opened Arts Theatre is giving us an Ibsen cycle. Meanwhile all one's friends seem to be doing something in the grand Amateur Dramatic Club production of "Julius Caesar," which is taking shape in its rehearsals very promisingly for its performances in the last week of term...
After two discouraging years he found in Pittsburgh a backer named Alfred E. Hunt. Together they started Pittsburgh Reduction Co.. which later became the Mellon-controlled Aluminum Co. of America. The first run in their crude little shop produced an aluminum ingot the size and shape of a pancake...
Harvard goes to battle tonight without the services of Traff Hicks, and with Ford's charley horse a possible drawback. But Freddy Moseley, without whose services the team beat Me-Gill last week, will be in proper shape tonight, and with Thorny Brown at reserve defence in 'Hicks' place, the Harvard forces should not suffer seriously from lack of man-power...
...Sweden, the Russians annoyed England by firing on British trawlers in the North Sea, thinking they were the enemy. By the time the Baltic Fleet had limped through the Straits of Malacca they were in sorry shape. Togo had had plenty of time to get ready; his ships were overhauled, his men like fighting cocks. As he lay in wait, he knew the coming battle of Tsushima (he had even picked the place) would be the decisive contest of the war. It was the greatest naval fight since Trafalgar, greatest until Jutland. Turning the Russian fleet from their one chance...