Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent films, Frankenstein's monster is the most nearly terrifying. More subtle than Mr. Hyde of the staring eyes and grinning teeth, is this monster whom a mad scientist has pieced together out of the parts of corpses. He comes out of the dark a giant, stumbling, inarticulate shape, with square skull, inhuman eyelids, and the filmed eyes of one too long dead. You may see the raised suture at the wrists, where the mismatched hands are grafted to the arms...
This letter is to take the shape of an appeal; an appeal to all men who are interested in Harvard football, more particularly to men who are at all attentive to the affairs of 150-pound football, and especially to men who have any ambition to playing on the 150-pound football team...
Harvard students will participate in the meetings of all three of the Assembly Committees, small bodies which whip into shape the material to be presented to the plenary session of the Assembly for consideration and action. Leadership in the model meeting of the League Council, which will discuss the pressing crisis in Manchuria and in Shanghal, will likewise fall to the group representing the French delegation. These delegates anticipate a difficult task in defence of the French position, one which has been subject to severe criticism in the past few years...
...program this year has been shaped by the officers of the Model League with a special view to the attraction of students of wide and varied interests to participate in the sessions. Students of government and modern history will discover many topics the consideration of which will directly touch their fields of study. For the first time, a strong bid for the participation of students in economics has been made in the shape of the committee to discuss economic questions. The chief value of the Assembly, however, is still for the collegian who, while his activities do not lie directly...
...size and shape of an invisible barn might be determined by throwing a million baseballs at it and studying the number of balls which hit it and the angles at which they bounce off. That is the way physicists have determined the structure of the atom. Pellets have been radium particles, X-rays and, lately, cosmic rays. Inability to control available ammunition has been the great handicap...