Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nurselike, Nehru flitters up & down India, watching, scolding, praising, teaching. His Western-trained mind knows how much India has to learn-and how quickly. The civil service, the press, the schools are in no shape to do the job. Nehru is the thin link between the 300,000,000 people and their government. Recently, Nehru took a trip to Madras province which typified the work of a unique statesman in shaping a new nation. He traveled 3,500 miles by plane, made twelve ex tempore speeches and 18 public appearances, showed himself to 1,000,000 people. He displayed wild...
...archeologists got closer to the unanswered riddle of the "Lost Colony." Results from excavations started over a year ago have convinced Jean C. ("Pinky") Harrington of the National Park Service that he has uncovered the outlines of Fort Raleigh built by Governor Ralph Lane in 1585. The radical shape of the fort (its bastions are on the sides, rather than the corners) is identical with another fort built by Governor Lane in Puerto Rico while en route to Roanoke...
China's Nationalist commanders got what they had been hoping for-a big, positional battle with the Communists in Central China. They won, but the Reds got away in shape to fight again...
...engineer of the big and smart Philips electrical company at Eindhoven, in The Netherlands, stumbled on one of the Stirlings. He and his colleagues decided that all it needed was redesigning with modern materials. During the German occupation, they worked quietly to get their mechanical sleeping beauty in shape for the postwar world...
...faced, bushy-browed Westbrook Pegler, stoutly filling a grey suit, chatted amiably with his dandiacal little ex-boss, publisher Roy Howard, who wore his familiar matching shirt, bow tie and breast-pocket handkerchief. Cartoonist David Low, looking just like his self-caricatures, but larger, made quick reminders of the shape of a jowl, the outline of a room, for later use, and was convinced that a U.S. convention provided too much circus and too little bread...