Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are approximately 30,000,000,000 stars in this home circle, arranged in what Dr. Shapley called a discoidal system, the general shape of this star mass being that of a thin watch, or of two plates held together face to face. Studies of the last year indicate that the diameter of our galaxy is 200,000 light years, a light years, a light year being 6,000,000,000,000 miles...
...Lord Tilbury, looking down, saw that a portion of her afternoon meal, in the shape of an appetizing potato, had been dislodged from the main convert and had rolled out of bounds. It was this that was causing the silver medalist's distress and despondency. Like all prize pigs who take their career seriously, Empress of Blandings hated to miss anything that might be eaten and converted into firm flesh...
...monster dragons, alternately benevolent and merciless, writhe completely across China in the shape of her two mightiest rivers, the Yangtze which Chinese call "Long River," and the Hwang Ho ("Yellow River"), each more than 2,500 miles long. Last week China's rain gods were pouring destructive torrents into the two River Dragons' veins. Mad with fear, myriads of peasants and town dwellers remembered that as recently as 1931 the Hooding Yangtze chased 10,000,000 Chinese from their homes and killed 140,000 by drowning alone-not to mention the ensuing famine: the greatest disaster of modern...
...been the purpose of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports at Harvard in recent years to shape its coaching policy along academic lines and so far as possible do away with the seasonal coach. The policy has been more and more to engage men who wish to make their life work the teaching of athletics...
...short), breathed the strains of "Hymn to the Night" while the Men's Singing Club of Portland sang the words: ''Softly now the light of day fades upon my sight away. . . ." Large among the floral pieces which banked the music room was one in the shape of a harp, on which roses marked the notes of the first bars of the hymn. In several cities seven other pipe organs, gifts of Mr. Curtis, whispered the same peaceful melody that afternoon as his body was borne to its grave in West Laurel Hill Cemetery. Cyrus Curtis' death...