Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From New Haven comes coach Jordan Olivar's boast that he has never sent a Yale team into a game in better shape. After five straight wins and a trouncing over Princeton, his team, an underdog two months ago, is now favored by most observers to beat the Crimson...
When he walks to the piano, with his shambling, coltish stride, and peers owl-eyed at the audience, Lorin looks like anything but the image of a dashing musician. But his technique is close to faultless, his articulation razor-sharp, his attack bold and secure. Moreover, he can shape individual musical ideas out of a kind of interior logic without the bolstering of exaggerated tempos or showy dynamics. Last week he made both his Saint-Saëns and Chopin sound beautifully and inevitably correct...
...know for sure until the furnaces start operating this week. Says one steelman: "We've never gone through a strike this long. When a furnace has been down for four months, nobody can say how it's going to work even though it looks in good shape...
Trim (5 ft. 11 in., 180 lbs.) and broad-shouldered, Edgar keeps himself in shape for long hours on the job. He spends a quarter of his time hopping from country to country, divides the rest between offices in Oakland and Manhattan. His 12-ft. blond-wood desk in Oakland is equipped with 20 intercoms and 17 phone lines that can reach his network of 91 plants and facilities in seconds. Henry J. still keeps in touch from Hawaii, often calls up sleeping Edgar at 4:30 a.m. and chortles: "Oh, did I wake...
...York's Idlewild international airport, once a shantytown of jumbled wooden buildings, is rapidly taking shape as the world's best-as well as biggest-air terminal. Last week Eastern Air Lines opened a $20 million, four-acre terminal, the largest ever built for use of a single airline. Last month United Airlines opened its $14.5 million terminal. By 1963 U.S. lines will build five more of their own terminals, completing Idlewild's $150 million decentralized Terminal City passenger complex...