Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toward the target, its 8-in. muzzles rising slowly. Marksheffel dropped a hand, and a seaman pressed a warning buzzer three times with his left hand. With his right, he squeezed a pistol-like trigger, firing the first gun. The ship's crockery rattled as a 260-lb. shell hurtled over the mountain...
...cost a lot of money. There are, for instance, libraries, laboratories, and museums--and there is an athletic plant. The benefits of libraries, laboratories, and museums are available to students at either low or no cost. However, to derive the full benefits of the H.A.A., the student has to shell...
...Shell Game. In his profession, he soon found what he was looking for. Before he was 40 he was one of the world's foremost mining engineers ("My aggregate income . . . probably exceeded that of any other American engineer"), an operator of rich ore and gem mines in almost every corner of the earth, a multimillionaire whose viscera felt the first gentle urgings of philanthropy. When World War I came, Hoover, summering in England, became by accident the founder of a committee to get stranded Americans back home...
...Greek gods, for names of planets had been . . . previously reserved for them. However, some member of a world astronomical committee on nomenclature subsequently protested, and I was put off Olympus."* He dealt on his own terms with Lloyd George ("He was as nimble as the pea in a shell game") and Clemenceau ("He never did understand Mr. Wilson. I don't think he tried to"), and played a bigger role at Versailles than most histories accord...
...contrast the Blue's athletic debuts against Harvard were singularly unsuccessful. Exactly a century ago, an old Harvard shell, the Oneida, defeated New Haven crews in the morning and afternoon. The 100th anniversary crew race will be celebrated this spring. Sixteen years later, the Crimson won the first baseball game of the rivalry, 25 to 17. In 1875, Harvard won the football opener by four goals and four touchdowns...