Word: shell
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...awarded the great honor for unusually heroic work in driving his ambulance over exceptionally difficult mountain roads under shell fire, almost continuously, for eight days, during which time he obtained scarcely any sleep or rest...
Coach Haines graded his crews immediately. In the University shell there are six seats filled by last year's first-string oars. These are C. C. Lund '16, who has seen but one defeat in his racing career, that against Yale last year, in the position of stroke oar; H. B. Cabot '17, still at number seven; Captain D. P. Morgan '16 was moved from two to six; T. E. Stebbins '17, who still pulls the number five oar; K. B. G. Parson '16, who is rowing 4; and H. L. F. Kreger '16, last season's coxswain. The three...
...Haven, Conn., Feb. 8. -- S. A. Pumpelly, Yale 1917, started the Junior Prom. tonight at 9.35, when he led off the grand march with Miss Anne Wood. The Armory was decorated in black and white with the university crew shell hanging above the centre of the hall. Supper and intermission came at 1 o'clock, after the twelfth dance. The lighting of several of the dances by spotlights from the balconies produced a novel effect. The festivities of Prom. week ended at 5 o'clock when the end of the dance order was reached...
...States Navy and are made to be towed by a battleship at the rate of 25 miles an hour against a 15-mile wind. These balloons, attached to a warship, are of immense value, as it makes it possible to sight the enemy many miles away and direct the shell-fire of the battleship towards the right point. Every ship and battery abroad is being equipped with similar observation balloons. They take the place of the old spherical type whose continual swaying and bobbing made it impossible to take correct observations, and in addition often made the operator seasick...
...explosives on the soldier as observed in this present war and the organization of the British Medical Service. Dr. Prince has but recently returned from abroad, where he has spent much of his time in the trenches and the hospitals of the English field service studying the effect of shell fire on the nervous systems of the men at the front...