Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Statistically, Lawrence, Mass, was in parlous shape. Lawrence is a textile town (it makes more worsted than any other U.S. city); this winter some mills' production had been off as much as 40%. More than 20,000 of Greater Lawrence's 52,077 workers were listed last week as unemployed...
...stone it came from-a 4-ft.-high slab of onyx. Pocked with chisel marks, it successfully simulated the feathery plunge of the bird; polished, it represented the wet scales of the fish. Der Harootian had deliberately exaggerated the size of the fish and taken vast liberties with the shape of the bird. The fact that they seemed far less abstract than they were in actuality was a measure of the sculptor's power to create illusion without slavish copying...
Federal aid to education is long overdue. The $300,000,000 for this year will just be a beginning towards reviving an educational system that is in notoriously shaky shape. In Detroit, for example, rat catchers and garbage collectors get paid more than school teachers. In the South, which is financially less vigorous than Detroit, many teachers are paid starvation wages, and school buildings make Harvard Hall look like Lamont's Poetry Room...
...coaches the confidence is more restrained. Freshman mentor Harvey Love said, "It's the best crew we've had in some time and they're coming along well," but he hastens to point out that he knows little about his opposition, who may very well also be in good shape. Of course pessimism is to the coaching profession as pigeons are to the Yard...
...course. The Dedham Country Club is short and easy, but half of its holes are tough for people who have never played them before. The second and eighteenth, for example, are at the top of high hills, and a man at the bottom can't judge the shape of the green...