Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Stevens has been giving, strenuous tubbing practice to each of the oarsmen. In addition to showing each man the fine points of the stroke while the two, oarsman and coach, are in the double shell, motion pictures have been taken and the man has seen his errors on the screen in the evening...
...waters of the Thames so rough here today that the Freshman crew nearly swamped when it attempted its regular morning workout at 11 o'clock. Instead of putting the two University boats through their morning paces, Coach Stevens took each University crew man out in a two-oared shell, himself pulling the oar not used by the student oarsman...
...Royal Dutch-Shell oil combine, greatest competitor of the Standard in the international petroleum field, owns oil properties all over the world. In 1919 the Anglo-Dutch group decided to invade the U. S. field in a large way and purchased 130,869 shares of the Union Oil Co., through its subsidiary, the Shell-Union, for about $21,000,000. This, however, constituted only 26% of Union's stock, and Sir Henri Deterding, head of Royal Dutch, resolved to obtain 51% to control the Company. But several large Union stockholders, alarmed at the foreign invasion, organized the Union...
...Crimson boat held its own at a lower stroke than Yale, Princeton, or Penn. Welaman did not raise the stroke until the last 500 yards, in which the Crimson eight gained steadily, losing to Yale by a little over a length and to Pennsylvania by nearly three. The Princeton shell trailed by several lengths...
...prime interest will be the second university race in which both Yale and Pennsylvania have entered a shell. The results of this race will afford the coaches some data for comparing the Yale and Harvard second university crews, and incidentally the first crews, both of which meet on June...