Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hurt considerably, but to replace them there are some outstanding men from last spring's undefeated first year crew, judged by experts to be the best freshman boat in the country. From this boat the men who should make the best bid for a seat in the first shell are C. McK. Norton, captain and stroke; Guy Murchie, No. 7, brother of Donald Murchie who rowed in Boat A in some of the two-mile races last year; James Lawrence, bow; Forrester Clark, No. 4, who was a football tackle this fall, and back on the Polo Team...
...confused with the Camp Fire Girls, founded by the late Dr. Luther. H. Gulick and Mrs. Gulick ("Timanous" and "Hiltini") at Wohelo (their summer camp), Lake Sebago, Me., also founded in 1912. Membership 170,000. ?He originally owned a seashell souvenir business, then founded the Shell Transport and Trading Co. which later joined its chief rival, The Royal Dutch Oil Co., to form The Royal Dutch-Shell trust...
Academic thoughts and fancies should, and probably will, fade as quickly as the iris and narcissus so carefully planted in one's rooms only to bloom for the janitor's delectation during Christmas vacation. But strange to say, the world will be no husk, no empty shell. There will be left, among other things...
...grade of Assistant Professor being then created for the first time in the University, with a definition that has remained unchanged to this day." He rowed in crews made up of graduate students and a few College officers, and in 1858 took part in a regatta in the first shell ever to appear on the Charles. The choice of crimson as the Harvard color arose out of the fact that Mr. Eliot and a fellow oarsman chose red silk handkerchiefs as the color for the Harvard crew in that regatta. He was doing full College work during this rowing period...
Considering that the available oil supply within the boundaries of the United States will approach exhaustion at the present rate of consumption within 20 years, and further that the Royal Dutch Shell Company and one or two other groups British or Dutch controlled are at present in possession of four-fifths of the known or exploitable oil supply of the world, two further facts are of significance. The inventor of the process is a German, Dr. Berguis, and his achievement has been made possible by millions of dollars of German backing and two large experimental stations. Moreover an international company...