Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortifications in the southern Honan mountains near Sinyang. Meanwhile, two Japanese forces pushing from the Nanking area to Hankow, one paralleling the swollen Yangtze, the other striking overland through southern Anhwei Province, last week were bogged down by heavy rains, inefficient transport. After a long silence, small Japanese warships shelled towns on the Yangtze some 60 miles upriver from Wuhu, leading observers to believe that they would take advantage of the high waters to push on up to shell Hankow, 200 miles away...
...companies: Charles E. Arnott, Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.: A. G. Maguire, Wadhams Oil Co.; Amos Ball, Standard Oil Co. (Indiana); Harry D. Frueauff, Cities Service Co., Cities Service Oil Co., Empire Oil & Refining Co.; Edward Karstedt, formerly of Continental Oil Co.; G. C. Morris, Pure Oil Co.; Alexander Fraser, Shell Petroleum Corp.; J. W. Carnes, Sinclair Refining Co.; Robert W. McDowell, Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp.; Frank Phillips, Phillips Petroleum Co.; W. G. Skelly, Skelly Oil Co., Ohio...
Harvard took up the challenge by swinging up to 35 and holding the spacing in a power drive. From here on it was the Crimson's race to row as they pleased, and Chace lifted the beat to 38 before the winning shell went over the line. Columbia slammed across at 41, clocking in 7:55 to the victor...
...apparent effort to make some distinction between tourist and cabin class quarters, the designers gave cabin class passengers a little Coromandel wood and gold. Finest rooms: the theatre, only air-conditioned one afloat, designed by Cornelis J. Engelen and Elisabeth de Boer in the shape of half an egg shell, with a rich color scheme of old rose, cerise, dull gold and red copper; Architect Oud's tourist class lounge, with a magnificent gay scarlet carpet...
...pure enjoyment, and they disclose a skill in workmanship and a knowledge of animal forms that is astounding. Many are cut on a curved surface so that the minute figures, such as the youth riding a dolphin, appear on the inside of a hollow no bigger than a walnut shell. They were signed by their artists, whose names were classed by the Greek writers with those of the great sculptors...