Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Warring companies, like warring nations, proclaim slogans, announce positions from which they will never, never recede. Last winter, when the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Co. (60% Dutch, 40% British) declared war on the Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., both contestants stated their cases promptly and publicly. For Dutch Shell, Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding shouted "stolen oil" across the ocean to N. Y. The retort was immediate: "The Standard Oil Co. of N. Y. . . . will carry out all contracts into which it has entered, and will not be swerved ... by desperate and destructive measures...
...Thames. Harvard had the heaviest crew in 15 years. It was so heavy that the shell sat low in the water, so heavy, Bostonian, assured it was that young men with crimson feathers in their hats went through the observation trains at New London looking for bets and getting them. At 7 o'clock on a cloudy evening below Gales Ferry the two boats went away. Harvard was in front for the first 50 yards and never after that. Past the flags that marked the first mile, past the cluster of brick buildings at the submarine base, Yale moved...
Coach Brown has decided to have the first crew use the Pocock shell given by John Watt's father in the race on Saturday. The conditions today were poor, with rough water, and a strong south westerly wind. It was very hot on the river...
...Street of Sin. Basher Bill seizes an egg, bashes it against his own forehead, rips off the shell, swallows the nutritious portion whole. He grabs another, and another,-until he has consumed twelve (12) eggs. The eggs are hardboiled; so is Basher Bill as played by Emil ("Slow Motion") Jannings. Paramount's publicity man swears that Mr. Jannings actually ate those twelve eggs. Well, good for him; for there is little else to egg one on in The Street of Sin. Basher Bill lives in the slums of London with a blonde harlot who loves him. His occasional business...
...Brown '96 has been working especially hard on getting his oarsmen to get a lot of snap in the finish of their strokes, having the crew do most of its hard pulling aft of the outriggers. The style of Leader's crews is just the opposite with the shell getting most of its drive on the catch of the stroke...