Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make the concession a pointed barb at Italy it was made to cover no less and no more than the Ethiopian area which by the Treaty of 1906 was declared a "sphere of Italian influence." This area is being visualized by thinking of Ethiopia, which is roughly round in shape, as the face of a watch. Then all of Ethiopia covered by a minute hand as it sweeps around from 12 to 8 is covered by the Rickett Concession. Not in this area is Lake Tana, vital water source of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. On the imaginary watch, Tana...
...demanded. His motto seemed to be "Hurry up", and there was never any doubt as to his attitude towards loafing. A continuance of this policy this fall will make Varsity football practice no bed of roses, but it is the only possible way to whip the available material into shape for the string of hard games that follows he Springfield opener...
...with bulbous breasts was squeezing gold coins from the eye sockets of a skull. Horrified, Principal Johnson rang for the janitor, hung 80 yards of cheesecloth over the mural before his pupils arrived. Artist Katz kept on working. Under the cheesecloth a blind, muscular youth in rowing trunks took shape. The youth's left arm stretched toward the pensive goddess, who turned out to be the Mother of Compassion. His right arm faded into a scene of cruelty and destruction: machine gunners, cannon, the ogre Greed. Most gruesome bit of all was the Demon of Hate, also bisexual, slashing...
...last month but also plain millionaires, sub-millionaires, sub-sub-millionaires and possibly on down the line to ordinary people with an income of more than $5,000 per year. Thus what President Roosevelt started as a tax program to encourage "a wide distribution of wealth" began to take shape as a full-bodied revenue bill which would affect a majority of taxpayers...
...bill?whether its members understood it or not. The House made a few concessions to country bankers, self-righteously struck out one of the best features?pensions for Federal Reserve Board members to insure their independence?and left it to the Senate to put the bill in shape...