Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the last Imperial Conference met, three years ago, the luxury of actual shell fire was omitted at the concurrent naval review...
...Norfolk, Va., one Walter Winner, fisherman, sighted a sea turtle basking on the surface of the ocean; silenced his motorboat, slipped up behind, leaped to the turtle's shell, seized its head to keep it from diving, rode upon its back until, tired, it could be trussed, towed ashore. The turtle weighed 500 pounds...
...liberal arts background sufficient to enable them to boast of a certain amount of culture, have an ideal haven in the small college, such as Dr. Holt proposes. Nor is it any shame to them that they do not care to go further than the outlines and the shell of education, the probabilities are that such a training will be the more beneficial to their chosen paths of life. A college whose enrollment is restricted to five hundred (or, if coeducational, seven hundred) offers a chance for a large measure of individual attention. The student who would feel entirely...
...some joy in life. What remains of life does not at once look bleak and dreary to an English 'varsity man if he happens to drop a ball. Nor does he feel eternally disgraced if, by mischance, he falls during a sprint or crumples up in a shell...
...federal building they tried to reach a decision, failed. Judge Mack told them to try again. More nights in locked hotel rooms, more days in a stuffy juryroom with peekers looking through the windows . . . blasphemy, threats . . stubborn Juror No. 9 . . . sick Juror No. 6 who had been shell-shocked in the War . . . 36 hours, 48 hours, 60 hours...