Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head of Chesapeake Bay one fine morning last week and stuffed cotton or fingers in their ears. They and some 7,000 more or less distinguished civilians were promptly greeted by the cataclysmic detonation, the boiling smoke blast and the vanishing heaven-bound whine of a 16-inch shell from one of the country's 32 biggest coast guns...
...Army arsenals would be capable of turning out only 1% of the artillery ammunition required by forces as large as the U.S. had in the field at the 1918 Armistice. The Army Ordnance Association perfects plans for the rapid conversion of private metal sheet & tube factories, for example, into shell factories ; keeps such factories' knowledge of shell-making up-to-date; plans for emergency purchases of raw materials; for orderly output and delivery of the finished product...
...stretching of old exchange rules the governing committee has for some time permitted dealing in foreign deposit certificates of Royal Dutch Oil, Rand Mines, De Beers Mines and Shell Trading & Transport...
...acknowledged patrons of the arts, of which Vincent Astor is most prominent. In glass cases on the wall of the club hang Booth's Hamlet and Shylock costumes, his pipes, the skull he used in Hamlet. It is a real skull. Tradition says it is the shell of a murdered man who willed it for Booth's use. Another treasured relic is Mark Twain's check for $200,000, which he, experimenting as a publisher, paid Mrs. Julia Grant for memoirs of her husband, Ulysses S. Grant. Mark Twain was a founder of The Players...
...University eight spent yesterday afternoon experimenting with a new Lutz shell on the Charles, the various eights shifting about and each taking an initial row in the new craft. After practice the general consensus of opinion was that it was not quite up to the standard of the shell used in the race at New London last June, a shell constructed by Pocock...