Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...condition, sprains, pulled muscles, and charley-horses are as common as Roosevelt dimes. Valpey scrimmages his squad every day and the players gayly test each other's stamina with right hooks to the midsection. Yet Cripples Corner has only one Varsity resident and the Crimson is in the best shape since...
...played first-string center last year until shelved by an injury. Even with a cast on the injured hand, he was used on offense by Dick Harlow. Chuck is back now, minus the cast, and intends to outfight his three competitors for the starting job. He started getting into shape at his New York home this summer a month before fall practice opened. Like O'Brien, Stone, and Hickey, he may be used as a defensive line-backer this fall...
...once when Joan of Arc smashed the Anglo-French alliance. It abandoned the Channel and reformed across the ocean, only to come to grief again at the hands of George Washington's men. The question facing Britons now, says the Times, "is whether, and, if so, in what shape, it will reform . . . Very few societies have done this trick twice. None, except perhaps the Greek, with Athens, Alexandria and Byzantium to its credit, has done it a third time. The English have to do it a third time or perish...
...subject sits with his eyes closed and thinks, for instance, about a familiar face. An alpha wave sweeps across his brain. In some mysterious way, not yet understood, the wave is able to select the right impulses stored in the memory circuits. Many impulses, representing color, shape, light and shade, blend together into a picture of the remembered person's face...
...costs $75,000 a month), and drumming up new business. In three months he lined up $5,000,000 worth of engine business from J. I. Case, Checker Cab, Sears, Roebuck and others. By the time war orders came in, he had Continental in such tiptop shape that it turned out $796 million worth of aircraft and truck engines...