Word: shell
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When the battle is hottest and the wounded begin to filter back through the lines, some of them--hit by a shell or shot through an arm or shoulder--are able to stumble back alone toward the dressing stations between the lines...
...Boches started to retreat, the sections followed up their divisions. The sights which I saw last Sunday, I shall never forget. In some places the Boche dead were literally piled one on the other. None of them have been buried, and the ground is just scalded by shell fire. I saw one Boche holding on to the trigger of a machine gun, while three yards ahead of him was a dead Frenchman who had fallen flat on his face. He, no doubt, had been killed by this machine gun, and a little later someone had killed this Boche. I hope...
...thought it was a 77 which had gone on through, and I waited for it to explode. As nothing happened I felt of my poor old dome and, finding it still attached to me, I stood up. Instantly I was in the road again, flat on my nose. A shell had gone off just behind me, I learned later. I was unhurt save for a little scratch on my head and a great roaring in my ears and a great craziness in my head. So they sent me back along the endless chain of hospitals--this...
...until March 21 that Coach Haines set his charges out on the river. Contrary to the former, custom, no attempt was made to have the boat take to the water earlier by rowing in Lynn Harbor. The first 1921 shell appeared on the Charles on the same date. With the actual opening of the season on the water, the squad materially increased so that 16 full crews were launched daily...
...University, having been given the choice of courses, rowed that on the west which gave Yale the longer turn on the last bend in the river just above the last half-mile flag. This advantage was balanced, however, by the heavier shell in which the Crimson was forced...