Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin General von Cramon scored the French for bombarding Damascus; told how Feldmarschall von der Goltz had forborne to shell Antwerp Cathedral during the obliterating German bombardments of Rheims, Verdun, Amiens...
...feet, and the work had to be done in dashes at the ebb. There was no evidence that the creatures found had had any communication by a land bridge with North America or any other continent. They formed a unique group of pre-Pleistocene fauna-giant ground sloths, shell-backed glyptodons, macrauchenia (camels, snouted like tapirs), toxodons (tusked hippos) and a bird-like flesh-eater called phororhacos...
...said to have withdrawn French citizens and troops from the Christian quarter, leaving the other Christian nationals to the protection of their consuls and at the mercy of the mob, which was fortunately not extremely hostile to non-French foreigners. And for 48 hours French shot and shell poured into the city; French tanks dashed at full speed through the streets, firing point blank into bazars and houses; and French airplanes dropped bombs...
Garmented in the magnificent arrangement of silk and tortoise-shell she had bought to wear in her Manhattan debut as Madame Butterfly with the San Carlo Opera Company, Ganna Walska, soprano wife of Millionaire Harold F. McCormick, knelt in tears at a dress rehearsal while Tenor Franko Tafuro sang "Beautiful Creature...
Preliminary races in the sculling regatta will be held this afternoon beginning at 3 o'clock. There will be four classifications of events, single shell races, wherries, broad and narrow compromises, and double sculls...