Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newark, Boston, Chicago, Providence, has been suspected of arranging an appeal to whatever foreign element is largest in the town where the race was being held. But recent races won by Frenchmen Letourner & Guinbretiere in Pole-filled Chicago have weakened such suspicion. In one way undoubtedly Tsar Chapman can shape his races-he teams the riders. Anyone who objects to being teamed the way he wants has no way of protesting, since Chapman controls the business. He rode races himself till 1903, then managed tracks in Butte and Salt Lake City, slowly expanding. Every year he goes to the Paris...
Gradually, it may be seen, that the acquisition of culture is becoming less dependent on the stiff pedagogy of the lecture platform and assuming a more informal, palatable shape. It has been realized that a pleasant environment conduces both to easier and more profitable study. This fine arts counterpart of the literary Farnsworth room will be a source of pleasure for the many who find the coldly formal atmosphere of the average library or museum distasteful...
...struck at the communistic rule. Pointing out that only one out of every hundred Russians are Communists, he presents a picture of one hundred and twenty millions of ignorant peasants, submerged in squalidity and often bewildered by the complete overthrow of the world of their fathers, 'being whipped into shape by the young Communists. In the Communists he finds a "new priesthood" who neither drank nor believed in God "because both of them clouded one's brain," whose courage and self-denial he finds comparable to the Jesuits, whose motto, in one case, ranked religion with drunkeness, smoking and hooliganism...
...Lettermen who have returned to the mat this year seem to be in fine shape," declares Coach Gallagher. F. C. Evans '31, wrestling in the 118 pound class, heads the list followed by Arthur Klein '32, in the 125 pound class, H. R. Eisas, '32, 135 pound class, R. K. Safford '31, 145 pound class, and W. A. Newhart, elected captain of this year's mat-men, has not appeared as a candidate for the wrestling team and a new captain will be elected in the near future...
...tomb is practically the same shape as the wooden one but one-third higher, larger, built of 10,000 tons of red and black granite. Over the bronze entrance doors is a 50-ton monolith of black granite with the word LENIN inlaid in letters of red porphyry. Inside the doors, a giant hammer and sickle, carved in stone. Embalmed Lenin lies in an underground room 30 ft. square and 30 ft. high on a slab of black granite, under a convex bubble of glass. Just behind the tomb are the bodies of the Soviet "apostles" including two from...