Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chemists have found other materials to take the place of white phosphorus, so that the "strike- anywhere" match has become a fairly digestible article. White phosphorus still finds use, however, to improve the vacuum in electric lamps, in making rat poisons, and, in smoke screens, for when a shell filled with it bursts, the phosphorus catches fire instantly and sprays its flaming drops in every direction, sending up a cloud of dense white smoke...
...night if there would be any changes in the first University crew before the race with Columbia and Pennsylvania on May 10, Coach Stevens said "probably not" with a finality which indicated "No!" The performance of the first eight since the promotion of Robert Winthrop '26 to the first shell last week seems to indicate that the best possible combination has been formed...
Following close upon the promotion of Winthrop from the sixth position in the second boat to the same place in the University shell, while R. L. Raymond '24 went to seat four on the same eight and J. W. Adie '26 occupied Winthrop's old position in the second shell, came the advancement yesterday of F. P. Weymer '26 to number four on Coach Stevens' second eight...
Yesterday, the first crew proved its superiority over the second so thoroughly that Coach Stevens in the launch finally left the seconds behind and confined his attention to stroke Hamilton's eight. But this deficiency in the second shell may be partially accounted for by the frequent shifts in the line-up of this eight in the past week. O. F. Righter '26 and R. C. Storey Jr. '24 were both advanced one seat from three and four to two and three respectively. The present line-up of the second crew is: stroke Canning; 7, Hobson; 6, Adie; 5, Gates...
...West Pointer"; in Washington. He entered just as Ulysses S. Grant graduated. Due to his slight stature, he was nicknamed "Agnes"?an appellation which clung to him through life. When he was a lieutenant at the battle of Fredericksburg, his sword was cut from his side by a shell; at the end of the Civil War he was a captain in the regulars. A nonagenarian at his daughter's house in Washington, he smoked from six to ten cigars daily...