Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their event they call the competition "very rough." Entering officially for the Union Boat Club down-river from Weld Boathouse, they say the "outfit to beat" will come from the Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia. This shell will be manned by Owen J. Tolland and William Knecht, one an Olympic and one a previous national champion...
...steady return year after year by following Weyerhaeuser's methods. But most tree farming is big business and ties up plenty of capital. Weyerhaeuser and other big lumber companies (e.g., Crown Zellerbach) spend about $37 an acre for such permanent improvements as roads and wide firebreaks, shell out another 35-60? an acre every year for taxes and to maintain fire patrols and clear brush...
...anticipated, come back with his own meeting place-probably to demonstrate that he was also in a position to call part of the tune. But that did not alarm the West. Kaesong was venerable to the Koreans and had, centuries ago, been their capital. Now a ruin in a shell of aged city walls, it stood in a no man's land between U.N. and Communist positions...
...Russian gun, nicknamed "the Goose" by G.I.s because of its long (13 ft.) barrel, fires a shell with an extra-heavy propellant charge, can drill a clean hole through 5½ inches of armorplate at 500 yards. Mounted on wheels, it is light enough (about 2,500 Ibs.) to be moved about handily by its crew of five. U.S. tank commanders and crews took the Goose with professional calm. Said one tankman: "For months we have had it soft. Now we have to fight our tanks as tanks should be fought...
Famed Chemist Urey (Nobel Prize, 1934) proved three years ago that certain fossil sea shells can be used as fossil thermometers to measure "paleotemperatures." His method takes advantage of the fact that normal oxygen contains two stable isotopes, oxygen 18 and oxygen 16, in the proportion of 1 to 500. When a sea mollusk takes up calcium carbonate (CaCO3) to build its shell, the proportions of the oxygen isotopes in it vary with the temperature of the sea water. The warmer the water the less oxygen 18 is built into the shell...