Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coaches Stevers, Spuhn, and Haines respectively, and their assistance. Practice on the machines, and in the tank will continue until around the middle of March, when the eights will get on the water. Last year President Eliot's birthday, March 21 marked the date when the first Crimson shell was put on the Charles...
...Quite without warning a group of previously undistinguished actors chipped the shell off a hard boiled comedy and threw it in most amusing pieces to a greedy and appreciative audience. It was not the type of appreciation that Mr. Hampden or Mrs. Fiske would prize; it was the type of laughter whose artistic values are confined solely to the green and yellow curlicues which decorate U. S. Government currency...
...never came within a mile of me! "My wife, though, got into more serious difficulties. She went out walking one day and just as she was enjoying the scene, the Chinese thought they'd start their war, and she found herself between the armies. Fortunately a shell that struck three feet from her proved a dud. When she came in she said: 'Peter, you should have been with me this afternoon. I've had such an interesting time !' " Apparently the Kyne family likes its walks adventuresome-and that's how Peter B. Kyne strikes...
...uncle with a load of dynamite on his back and explosive bullets zipping all around; another of a colony of lepers threatening to break past his guard and infect a whole city with their dread disease. Amazing recitations they are, truly, but the French peasant ploughing up an unexploded shell probably gets the same thrill in his own back yard...
...days of yore, the good citizens of Athens filed past the urns and as they passed each one dropped a white shell or a black. If the black shells were more numerous than the white, then woe be to the man concerning whom the shells were cast, for he was ostracized and for ten years under pain of death must remain an exile from his native city...