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Word: shell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mistake to study. I am an epicurean College happiness is the summum bonum. There is nothing more delightful than smoking a cigarette in a Holworthy window-seat, or drifting lazily upon the beautiful bosom of the Charles while the wavelets wash and wander about your shell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DIALOGUE UPON COLLEGE HAPPINESS. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...Harlem Regatta, June 12, Columbia will be represented in the following races: eight-oared shell, six-oared gig, four-oared shell, and four-oared Junior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 6/13/1879 | See Source »

...styles of the two oarsmen were widely different. Goddard with his 14-inch slide pulled a clean and powerful stroke, while he kept his shell on a perfectly even keel. Livingstone's boat rolled, and he had a trick of bending himself up at the catch which was enough to take the wind out of any man. The Yale man looked plump and well-fed, but had evidently had very little of that training which gave the Harvard man his fine and clean-cut figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SINGLE-SCULL RACE. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

...Club-house float was partially destroyed last Tuesday afternoon by the Sophomore class crew, who ran into it with their shell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...Freshman barge, which was ordered of Waters, is expected May 1, the shell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

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