Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former members of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will join the Business School faculty this fall. Professor T. H. Dillon, formerly professor of electrical engineering at M. I. T. will have charge of the courses in public utilities management, while Assistant Professor E. H. Shell, who taught industrial management at M. I. T. will have charge of the same subject here...
What of this? Along its sluggish surface, one J. Padden, world's professional sculling champion, last week propelled himself and his slender shell fast enough to put six lengths between him and Alfred Felton, 1919 champion...
...demoralization attendant upon the Great War? . . . Shall we forget that no taint of dishonesty or corruption has ever attached to any man who held public office during that great struggle or to any man who continued to hold office under the Federal Government until March 4, 1921? Shell shock was late, indeed, in arriving if it is to be put forward now as the excuse for these gross misdeeds...
...RICHEST MAN?Edward Shanks ?Knopf ($2.00). Off on a holiday to Italy, suffering from shell-shock, a professor meets a soldier of fortune. Together, they discover a super-man? "the richest man in the world." "He is not one of the millionaires you read about in the newspapers: he is the man behind them?the biggest of them all. He has forests in Canada, ruby mines in the Urals, radium deposits in Brazil, hotels in Japan. There are trust and holding companies and secret agreements. It is a wonderful affair!" This fantastic creature is the storm-centre of startling...
...thermite incendiary-shell used during...