Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Life: ''Crawl out of your shell . . . and give people the chance to know you as you really are."-Dr. Louis E. Bisch in "Nobody Likes...
Against Virginia Annapolis showed thats its one weakness was in a sound pass defense. It is that weak shell that Art Oakes, Austie Harding, Frank Feley, Bob Burnett, and the rest of the Harvard pass combine will attempt to crack...
...Laborers at once began filling up holes in the streets, rushed construction of more dugouts. Only a few Chinese government buildings had been damaged, none of importance destroyed, and an improvised earthen dugout at the U. S. Embassy had not been hit by anything, although a Chinese anti-aircraft shell had splintered around the gatehouse. "It's just as safe here as on the river," announced Ambassador Johnson moving his whole staff back into the U. S. Embassy-after which natives of Nanking again beamed at sight of the Stars and Stripes wherever shown, made no more insulting noises...
...seized the city. Ruthless Miguel Aranda may be, an able officer he certainly is. Spurred on by personal hatred for Aranda, forces of 8,000 and 10,000 men have besieged Oviedo, furrowing its streets and battering its houses with as many as 3,000 shells a day-while the Asturians still had munitions. For many weeks the city and its garrison were entirely cut off, every man limited to three quarts of water a day for drinking and washing, a loaf of bread and some beans. Eleven months ago a Rightist relief column from Grado on the west...
Fort himself believed that the earth was nearly stationary, that the stars were quite close and nothing but holes in a gelatinous shell around the earth, that objects might be instantaneously moved from place to place by "teleportation." But he once denied "that I mean anything by anything...