Word: shell
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After having used the English style of rigging on their shells for three years, the crews of the University of Pennsylvania, at the suggestion of Coach Wright, will test out the American swivel oarlock system this spring. A new eight-oared shell fitted with swivel locks is being built, but the old shells rigged with thole pins will not yet be discarded...
...Shell Ordered for Penn...
Pennsylvania oarsmen have ordered a new eight-oared shell from Davy, the boat builder of Cambridge. It will be of the swivel type and will embody a number of Coach Wright's own ideas. Last year Pennsylvania used the tholepin, but Wright has had more experience with the swivel, having been accustomed to this type of rigging when coaching the Argonaut Club of Canada. At present it is planned to let the oarsmen have two weeks practice on the Delaware before leaving for the final bit of training at Poughkeepsie. In this way Wright believes he will accustom...
...about midnight, on that Christmas night, Richard started out on his motor ambulance in the neighborhood of the battlefield. And, as he neared the scene, a shell struck him as he sat on his chauffeur's seat. The ambulance was wrecked. No one heeded. But next day another ambulance driver found the American boy's body buried under the ruins of the vehicle, and the French soldiers paid it such military honors as they could...
...capture what remained of it. Being second-line troops just arrived from resting up, we were not required to fight. We consequently were huddled together in a bomb-proof shelter, packed all day like sardines, but quite satisfied to remain where we were, while above our heads shot and shell seemed to pass for several hours with unexampled violence. That night also was 'stormy,' but since then, that is for the last five days, there has been little else but sniping and desultory firing by the artillery. In the above action we lost 60 men killed and 200 wounded...