Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...windy Danesacre (Author Jameson's native Whitby), walking on the moors, quarreling with her port-bibbing mother-in-law, ignoring her garrulous sailor husband on his brief visits home. Never able to compromise, to "say with fools and saints, it was for the best," Sylvia's hard shell cracked only once-when her son's plane was shot down in the War. Old age found her blunt-speaking, crotchety as ever, her only weakness dreaming of foreign ports and cities she had known as a girl. Death, when at long last it came, found her still unreconciled...
...interests, young "Lang" Williams spent two years collecting proxies, saw his ammunition dump scattered to the four winds of Depression in the frenzied selling of the fall of 1929. But carrying the banner for his family house he started over again, by April 1930 had gathered enough proxy shot & shell to dislodge the Swenson management...
...prize-winning life of George Washington (in German), used to flutter U. S. feminine hearts as German consul in Chicago, Manhattan, Seattle. Last week he was still consul general in Liverpool, England, but the British Government, charging he helped a laborer sell Germans plans of Britain's big shell factory at Euxton, demanded his recall. Sore as hornets at recent expulsions of their inept agents, Nazis threatened reprisals against Britons in Germany if Consul Reinhardt...
Coach Tom Bolles and his shipload of able seamen will be out to set a record for successive victories over the Blue when the Harvard Varsity shell matches strokes with Yale tomorrow on the Thames River in New London, in the 88th meeting between the two colleges...
...jawbone about five-eighths of an inch just as a carpenter screws into wood. To his delight, new bone tissue soon closed tightly around the screw, and the patient was able to chew comfortably with the protruding head. After several months, Dr. Strock cemented a handsome false tooth shell, known as a porcelain jacket crown, on to the head of the screw, and the tooth looked and felt as good as a real...