Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full-time operation and relegates composition to reading periods or else to his summer vacations in Gstaad, a quiet Swiss village. "I need absolute seclusion when I compose," says Thompson. "I have to work intensively before I can write music with ease, much as an athlete must get into shape before he can perform adequately. If I am interrupted at all, I have to start over again...
Secondly, J. L. Falk, Research Fellow in Psychology, is using Hicks' malformed rats in experiments to determine the functions of several parts of the brain. Falk has accumulated much evidence that proves that the cerebral cortex discriminates between the size and shape of different objects...
...form in his first varsity start before a hostile crowd, and Cook demonstrated his capabilities dramatically last Saturday against North-eastern when he came in from the bullpen with the bases loaded and struck out the batter on three pitches. By all odds, Cook should be in top shape today...
...empire where climbing was scarcely necessary. By disposition, he settled on the business side. "Jack isn't any bookkeeper," he said, "and I've always been sort of a tinker." When Jack Knight bought the Miami Herald in 1937, Tinker Jim went down and hammered it into shape. A relentless foe of back-room featherbedding, Jim took on a strike by the powerful International Typographical Union in 1948, kept the paper on the street, set up a nonunion shop, won the battle hands down. (The I.T.U. considers the strike still in effect to this day.) All told...
...squad has practiced since early March and has been narrowed down from an original 50 candidates. After preseason sessions in Briggs Cage, the team began to take shape after vacation. Since then its performances in practice games have given rise to considerable optimism for the season. The team outscored Cambridge Latin on a rainy and cold Friday one week ago and easily out-played Somerville High School last Tuesday, giving much promise for the future in both games...