Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pond '25 and P. H. Theopold '25 were responsible for saving the life of B. L. Rideout '27, when the M. I. T. launch ran down and sank the shell in which the Senior class crew was rowing yesterday afternoon...
...downstream from the River street bridge. The Senior crews rowing upstream, met the Tech coaching launch coming down. The fault was mutual: Senior A had failed to stop, and the launch was on the left of the arch. In trying to regain the right side, the launch hit the shell in the bow, sinking it immediately. B. F. Rice Bassett at bow jumped just in time to avoid injury...
...Paris, one Albert Jauron announced that he had perfected an anti- aircraft projectile which, upon exploding in midair, would fling out a net to enmesh or envelop an airplane as a lepidopterist snares a butterfly. The Japanese Government having recently announced the adoption of just such a shell, Inventor Jauron declared he would...
...Kentucky, diggers from the University of Kentucky unearthed 21 Indian skeletons, sitting up in their graves amid shell and bone implements and ornaments unlike any ever before found. The graves, discovered two feet deep in cultivated fields, were in an area of Mason County, near May's Lick, where mastodon bones were once found...
...short row from the Weld boathouse demonstrated the fact that the new boat rolled heavily with the Freshmen. Accordingly, upon returning to the float the crew left the Pocock shell and took their oars over to the Newell boathouse, from which they embarked, in the new Lutz-built shell. Practice went far more smoothly and great satisfaction was expressed with the boat. When put to a vote as to which the Freshmen would prefer to keep, a unanimous decision was given in favor of the Lutz-built shell...