Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rear Admiral Harris Laning to make a little speech. Up from Washington came British Captain F. C. Bradley, R. N. to make another. These seadogs found no technical flaw in Soldier Clegg's work, for Soldier Clegg had with great accuracy noted on the spot every shell splash, turret and barbette...
...Suvoroff, Rozhestvensky's flagship, was soon put out of action. The hail of shell-splinters flying into the conning tower thrice wounded Rozhestvensky. Soon no one knew who was in command of the Russian fleet. All that could be done was to follow the ship ahead, until it sank or fell out of line, turning in helpless circles. By nightfall (the action began at 2 p. m.) the Russians were trying only to escape. Till midnight they were harried by torpedo attacks. Next morning brought the main Japanese fleet again to mop up the survivors. By then most...
Finding an able coxswain is a major problem for most college crew coaches. Coxswains must be strong enough to steer the shell straight, shrewd enough to detect faults in the crew's performance, aggressive enough to correct them, good-natured enough not to mind an occasional ducking for their pains. Until crew-conscious alumni start subsidizing midgets, cox-swains who fill these requirements but still weigh less than 120 Ib. will be scarcer than good halfbacks. Last week in England, crew coaches at Oxford, which hopes on March 24 to win the Boat Race against Cambridge for the first...
...Ranking. Hart Massey, 19, a graduate of Upper Canada College in Toronto, now in his first year at Balliol, is less than 4 ft. tall, weighs 56 Ib. Using Coxswain Massey would give Oxford at least 50 Ib. weight advantage. It would also mean building a shell specially weighted in the stern. If Coxswain Massey were suddenly unavailable on Boat Race Day, only alternatives would be i) using a shell other than the one the crew was accustomed to, or 2) using an average-size substitute coxswain, whose weight would cause the shell to drag. Last week, Oxford...
...supply for its distribution system East of Suez, in East Africa, South Africa, India, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan. The combination of these two big U. S. companies now looms as the third big petroleum group outside the U. S., inferior only to Royal Dutch Shell and the Socony-Vacuum-Standard-of-New Jersey combination...