Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman combination was very much handicapped by the difference in weight which has developed since last spring. As it raced on Saturday the boat averaged 183 pounds to the man, nine pounds more per man than it weighed at the New London Regatta last year. The shell was very much down at the bow on Saturday and the undoubted strength of the oarsmen was practically going to waste; due to the change in weight it seems very unlikely that this combination will be possible as a racing crew this year...
...seating announced earlier in the week. Dr Howe had all three of these crews out yesterday in the new arrangement in order to get the men accustomed to each other for today's race. With him was the committee, consisting of one graduate coach for each position in the shell...
...thought," Mr. Rotch began, "that the disabilities because of service would increase, but the war brought out so many new weapons, gas, high-explosive shells, etc., with which we had never had any experience, that the results were beyond our comprehension. Many men who apparently came out untouched are developing tuberculosis as a result of gas, and serious mental disorders as a result of shell shock. It is predicted that the peak of the tuberculosis problem will be reached in 1925, while it will not be until 1928 that the peak of mental disorders will come. This situation, together with...
Appleton stroked the University crew in the Yale race last spring having been pressed into service as stroke only two weeks before the eights left for Red Top. He led the crew admirably in its race but is superior as an oarsman in the bow of the shell. Two years ago he rowed at 3 in the Junior crew and in his Freshman year at bow on the yearling eight; it is more likely that he will all one of these positions than stroke this season...
...Great War, the War against Germany. Something a little more than three years ago hostilities came to an end along the far stretched "fronts". The guns stopped their clamour then; machine guns ceased their reaping; men no longer winced to the shrilling scream of the close-coming shell; there came to be no more need of stiffening nerves and unruly muscles under a relentless will to "stand the gaff" of the War three years ago. Three years. But today our generation is "fed-up" on War stories. There is no market for tales of the grim days of 'seventeen-'eighteen...