Word: shell
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University crews spent the morning practising starts with the gun, finishing up with a fast half-mile race, in which the first shell out-distanced the second boat by half a length...
During the afternoon D. H. Morris '21 was seated at number four in the first boat and C. W. Greenough '19 in the same position in the second shell...
...Freshmen covered the two-mile course in ten minutes, twenty-one seconds today, rowing at the rate of twenty-eight strokes to the minute. The second University shell kept the yearling paddlers well in hand, however, out distancing them easily, though stroking only twenty-four...
...shell which was damaged when it was being transported to Red Top has been repaired and will now be used by the Freshman eight...
...with great success in the world war. The projectiles used in it vary only slightly in weight, averaging about 97 pounds. The highest muzzle velocity is 735 meters per second, or approximately 2,350 feet per second, and the maximum range with the latest type of steel "stream-line" shell is 1,900 meters, or almost twelve miles...