Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holy Cross' football squad, in better physical shape than at any time since its opener, sharpened its attacking weapons today in preparation for Saturday's meeting with Harvard...
Meanwhile, at the Blockhouse, Coach Norm Shepard will be working through 35 varsity basketball candidates, hoping to shape a squad that can play his brand of fast-break ball. Right now it's still "fundamentals" for the team, which opens its season in early December. The schedule will take the team westward at Christmas and bring to Boston such new rivals as Navy...
...discussed by English gentlemen in a London dining room, when the servant, having placed a fresh bottle of cool wine on the table, respectfully shuts the door, and leaves them to their walnuts and their wisdom; but it will be found less palatable when it presents itself in the shape of a hard, greasy paw, and is claimed in accents that breathe less of freedom than of onions and whisky...
...over the past 20 years, but his stories are still read by people who like tart, sharp character sketching, mildly risque situations and ingenious twist endings. Even critics who think his work contrived and superficial will mainly agree that no other writer save Chekhov has so enormously influenced the shape of the modern short story. De Maupassant's own life story, as told in Francis Steegmuller's breezy and readable biography, seems itself like one of his more mordant sketches-flashy, melodramatic and highly painful...
...excellent passer, and has had a good deal to do with the Big Green's two victories this year. Fitkin, it must be admitted, had been out of action with mononucleosis for two weeks, and may not be up to full speed, but be certainly is in good enough shape to cause trouble around the ends...