Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five super-dreadnaughts of the U. S. Navy spat 18 and 20-inch shells at unseen targets 30,000 yards (17 miles) away. Every shell scored a precision hit. This target practice, directed by airplanes, took place last week off the coast of Guantanamo, Cuba...
Soon it was ascertained that "Benny" is Lieutenant Benjamin F. Staud of Pittsburgh, who pulled the lanyard firing the first U. S. gun to send a shell spinning over Nanking. Commodore Dewey's "Gridley" was Charles Vernon Gridley of Logansport...
...Mortlake, England, J. A. Brown stepped from a slender shell, grinned with gratification. Coxswain of the Cambridge University crew for four years, he had just participated in his fourth straight triumph over dark blue rivals from Oxford. The Oxford eight, conceded little chance to win, was kept in the 4¼-mile race mainly through the heroic efforts of Howard T. ("Ox") Kingsbury Jr. This gentleman, captain of last year's undefeated Yale crew, pulled a mighty oar, shouted encouragement to his wilting shell-mates, kept the winners' margin to an honorable three lengths. The Cambridge time...
...drops dead or the vacuum tubes blow out, did phonograph-makers realize what a musical bonanza they had failed to exploit. And if long-time records would sell, then music that it takes a long time to play could be recorded and probably sold. Hence the "in-a-nut-shell" sales elocutions on "good" music with which Victor furnished its salesmen last week when it brought out records that will play for an hour. The hour-long records are not several feet wide, of course. Ingenuity has replaced generosity and the Victor innovation consists in a magazine or loading carriage...
...University 150-pound eights staged a close race over the Henley course in the Basin yesterday afternoon after the heavy crews had rowed the mile and three quarters distance. The eight stroked by James De Normandie '29 finished first with open water between his shell and that stroked by W. C. Atwater...