Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hotel Raynaud, Paris, an obus, or mortar shell, surviving from the war of 1870 and used to break coal in the cellar, exploded after 50 years of service, wounding a workman and breaking the plumbing...
Captain Phillips also asserted that poison gas as a lethal weapon was no more barbarous than rifle or shell fire, for if it kills it kills instantly or not at all. He then read extracts from medical journals that reported that only one per cent of the wounded died as a result of gas poisoning...
...strangely enough, this prying into the past does not violate Egyptian tradition. The ancient faith released the spirit of the dead from the tomb after three thousand years; in the days of Martin Luther, then, the ghost of Pharaoh deserted the inner chamber, and only the mummy's empty shell remained...
...that empty shell has succeeded, perhaps, where Alexander and the Caesars failed. Domains more vast than he or they could ever conceive of have fallen under the power of a name. A resurrection not of the spirit, it is true, but certainly the greatest that flesh alone can know. To one of Egypt's lesser kings chance has given fame more widespread than any monument could offer. Perhaps Sir Walter Raleigh was wiser than he knew when he penned the words "O eloquent, just, and mighty Death...
...merely the University crew but the individual who rows for exercises and pleasure makes rowing among the most expensive of college sports. A single shell with suitable cars costs 3182. About $55,000 was spent on rowing last year. As the Graduate Treasurer points out, not more than 150 of the rowers could be candidates for the crews; and the money spent by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports gave opportunities for invigorating exercises to between 500 and 600 other students of all sorts...