Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardlings and the Big Red had traded the lead for most of the race, but in the last sprint, Cornell, a big crew for a freshman eight, overtook Coach Bill Leavitt's shell. In this race, the most exciting of the day, the Crimson also surprised the experts, as it had been seeded only third...
...junior varsity race, the Crimson shell crossed the finish line in 6:26.0, two and a half lengths behind Navy's winning eight, and a little less than a length behind the Cornell junior varsity. In this race Love's crew never threatened, and Columbia was only a half length behind it, in fourth
...varsity eight finished fourth, two and a half lengths off the record-setting pace of the undefeated Princeton shell, which captured the Joseph Wright Trophy, highest award for the nation's Highweight crows...
...previously undefeated Crimson freshman shell sagged late in its extended sprint to catch front-running Princeton, to place third, a length and a quarter behind Cornell. Dartmouth was nearly three lengths off the pace...
Being a war correspondent in the 1860s was in some ways tougher than being an infantryman. The foot soldier had to contend with nothing worse than mud, hardtack and the enemy's shot & shell. The war correspondent had to face all these things plus the wrath and distrust of such generals as William Tecumseh Sherman: "Dirty newspaper scribblers." Sherman called them. "They come into camp, poke about among the lazy shirks and pick up their camp rumors and publish them as facts ... I will treat them as spies, which in truth they...