Word: shell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Geoffrey Platt continues in seat five, which he has held since the beginning of the year. S. N. Shurtleff is at number four and J. M. Gates at num- ber three. Cecil Wylde at number two replaces J. P. Hall who is now stroking the four-oared shell. J. B. Olmstead 2nd, retains his position...
Coach Stevens will name four men for a four oared shell of substitutes this morning. These men will be drawn from a group of promoted class crew men and dropped third crew men. This crew will row daily, accessory to the first two crews...
House of Lords. "DieHard" and hard-shell Peers attacked the proposed recognition of the Russian Soviet Government. Lord Emmott said that the British Government's well-meant gesture had received a contemptuous, almost insulting reception from Zinoviev (Chairman of the Third Internationale). He said that a Russian memorandum to a London financial group demanded a loan of ?20,000,000 to ?30, 000,000 as a condition of the return of confiscated property in Russia. Lord Curzon, onetime Foreign Secretary, charged the Soviets with backing Sinn Fein in Ireland, training Indian extremists in Moscow for the special purpose...
...much happened. The Jehad did not prevent the British Moslems and the French North African troops from fighting against the Central Powers, nor did it hold back the Arabs from declaring their independence and fighting as Allies of the British in Palestine. The Jehad proved to be a "dud" shell; but when the Grand National Assembly at Angora abolished the Califate and sent the Calif, Abdul Medjid, to Switzerland in exile (TIME, March 10), the dud proved to be a bomb. The reverberations of the explosion still resound throughout all Christendom as well as the Moslem world...
...impeded since the crews got on the Charles last Wednesday; on that date, because of the short stretch of open water, practice was very brief; on Thursday, President Eliot's ceremony prevented rowing; and yesterday, Coach Stevens was obliged to spend much of his time in getting the damaged shell back to Newell...