Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rood Screens. A reminder of pre-Reformation days was discovered in rebuilding Noyon Cathedral. The shell scarred floors were removed recently, revealing the foundations of an ancient jubé, or rood screen. In olden days the jubé was a very heavy wall separating the chancel from the choir and nave, and from a tribune on top of this wall a cleric read the Gospel and Epistle. The rood screens of today serve to ornament the church rather than to separate the clergy from the laity...
Glyptotherium, a fossil giant armadillo, recovered from the Pliocene deposits of southern Arizona by Dr. J. W. Gidley, of the United States National Museum, has been brought to Washington and mounted. He is seven feet eight inches long, stands three feet high, and his shell weighs half a ton. Modern armadillos rarely exceed two feet in length...
...yesterday. Prominent among the favorable points in the bearing of the crew was its full spacing, the boat riding well between strokes even under pressure of a high beat. An improvement in the shoot-away of the hands was also noticeable, making possible a stroke of 40 as the shell shot off the starting line...
...itself was well-rowed and aggressive throughout. Jumping the seconds at the start, University A hammered out a lead of three-quarters of a length by the half-mile mark, steadily increasing this advantage under pressure of a lively 32 stroke as Matthews dropped the beat in the Junior shell to 28. Half a length of open water showed between the crews as Harvard Bridge dropped astern, but the third crew, starting even with University A at the mile mark, soon forced the latter to renewed efforts. At the Henley flags the leaders were neck and neck while the Junior...
...Oxford track team, also with two Americans, took the annual track meet 7 events to 4. W. P. Mellen, of New York-age 20, weight 155-stroke of the Oxford crew, was the hero of the four-mile drama on the Thames. Mellen sat in his first shell at Middlesex School and received his earliest training under Dr. R. Heber Howe, recently resigned as director of rowing at Harvard. He was the smallest man in either boat and was rowing his first intervarsity race. Stroking with judgment and rhythm, he held his crew to a safe lead after the first...