Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After two years skull practice on what a modern newspaper should be, Publisher Ingersoll this week goes over to his new team to start scrimmage and whip it into shape for a public appearance "whenever it's ready-say in six months or a year...
Lying in a funerary chamber of white limestone, the mummy was covered from head to foot with gold ornaments. On its face was a gold mask in the shape of a hawk's head. Two badly decomposed skeletons nearby, one wearing a carnelian necklace, were presumed to be those of servants. The mummy itself reposed in a silver coffin, the first ever found in the burial chambers of the Pharaohs. In ancient Egypt silver was called "white gold," and, because it was rarer there than real gold, was held more precious...
...that the mummy's real name was "Sheshonk," because this name was found on the ornaments in the silver coffin. In the presence of Egypt's young King Farouk,* an archeological devotee who rushed to the spot by automobile, three canopic vases (vases with covers in the shape of human or animal heads) were opened. Each of these contained a silver box shaped like the mummy and bearing the name of Sheshonk. In one corner was a tall conical jar sealed with mud. This, not opened at latest reports, was expected to contain papyri or weapons...
With the Andover meet, first outdoor test for 1942, hardly more than a month away, Coaches Mikkola and Neufeld are working overtime in the Cages and under the Stadium to whip into shape a Yardling track squad with few stars, a near vacuum in several events, and bad probation trouble...
...hopes to be able to whip the few remaining players in last fall's first eleven and some of the Jayvees into good shape this spring. "If I get a good chance to work with the boys, anything might happen. Teams are made, you know, not born...