Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certain was that for the first time an absolutely first-class warship had been struck directly by a modern bomber. The damage, though bloody, did not exceed that of a six-inch shell. The Deutschland was not disabled, easily made her way to Gibraltar whose harbor she entered with flag at half-staff. British vessels lowered their flags in sympathy, the crew of the U. S. S. Kane attended a memorial service for the dead before the Deutschland steamed off for repairs in Germany...
...away more than a mile in length, and the Henley has a slight turn in it shortly after its beginning. Harvard, on the inside lane, started ahead, but they soon dropped back alongside the other two boats, so that when they straightened out for the finish line the Crimson shell was well behind...
...Tigers and the Blue looked less smooth in their style of rowing, but they put plenty behind their oars, and despite the fact that the Princeton shell checked noticeably in the long layback, it pulled away from Cornell in the crucial sprint to the line...
...this plan is examined with a little more care than in usually employed by collegians in the heat of a new idea, its practical merit quickly falls away leaving only a this shell of theatrics. For those who want to utilize their money in saving life and salving pain, there are many ways in which $1500 could be used much more economically. In the fist place, it could be turned over to the Red Cross and other veteran organizations now at work for both sides in Spain and who could put the money to its most efficient use. Or better...
Weld Boathouse denied sabotage but pointed to the fact that the shell had just been repaired following a collision in the confusing in the float earlier in the afternoon...