Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King of England and the King of France are fighting again." They are figures in an ancient clock-tower at Calais, who emerge each day at noon and joust with lances. Early in the War the mechanism was damaged by a German shell. The Kings said to one another: Pax vobiscum; the Calaisiens exclaimed: Miracle! Now a clockmaker has repaired the mechanism and the two Allies are once more fighting, whereat the Calaisiens say cynically, with an expressive French shrug of the shoulders: C'est la fin de I'alliance...
...first the Earlforwards were snug and contented as bonds in a safe-deposit box ? in spite of Elsie's shock ing appetite for an occasional square meal ? and Elsie, too, was as con tented as a servant can properly expect to be, except when she remembered her shell-shocked suitor, Joe, who had disappeared shortly before the Earlforwards' marriage. But Henry's passion finally proved too strong for him ? he ate less and less (food is so costly), to Violet's great anxiety and in spite of all she could do. And Violet, too, began to wither...
...General Sir Frederick Stopford] with his 20,000 men spread around the beaches, the front lines sitting on the tops of shallow trenches, smoking and cooking, with here and there an occasional rifle shot, others bathing by hundreds in the bright blue bay where, disturbed hardly by a single shell, floated the great ships of the war; on the other the skillful German [General Liman von Sanders] stamping with impatience for the arrival of his divisions, expecting with every hour to see his scanty covering forces brushed aside, while the furious Kemal [Mustafa Kemal Pasha, now President of the Republic...
Yesterday afternoon, Coach Stevens had four four-oared shells on the river, the first boat leaving Newell Boat House at 3.15 o'clock and the other three following soon after. The University crews have discarded the eight-oared shells in favor of the four-oared because it was impossible to get eight men combinations together before 4.30 o'clock, and as darkness soon sets in after that hour, practice became too short to bring successful results. The present arrangement enables the first four-oared shells to take the water by 3.15 o'clock. Between this hour and darkness there...
...costs $100 per 1,000 cubic feet and-in spite of the goldbeater's skin covering the cotton bags-it leaks out to the tune of several hundred dollars a day. The British Air Secretary now announces a different scheme, whereby cheap hydrogen will be surrounded with a shell of inert gas, minimizing fire risk at a tenth of the cost of helium...