Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place effort against Yale last Saturday, was put in the second boat Monday. Haines says he had no particular reason for the switch except to make the boat go faster," but the change appears to have had results. During practices this week the varsity has been beating the J.V. shell by bigger margins than had been the rule...
...superbly trained journalists' shell is expected to beat a hastily assembled float of the alleged funnymen by about two lengths over the 23-mile Charles River course...
Harvard never needed to put on a final sprint and finished at 31 1/2. It was without doubt the Crimson's best race of the year, even though it used a borrowed shell. "We finally lived up to our time trials," Bolles said after the race. All the crews bucked a head wind...
Britain's effort to do business with Mao Tse-tung & Co. suffered a rebuff. British authorities in Hong Kong had seized an oil tanker whose ownership was in dispute between Red China and the Nationalists. In retaliation, Peking confiscated the property of the British Shell Company of China (which has installations in Shanghai, Canton, Tientsin, Amoy & Hankow). In London, a Tory bigwig huffed: "Palmerston would have sent a gunboat at once." But a Labor policymaker tut-tutted: "We must not be the ones to set the east aflame-or to turn that heat against the west. Patience, unending patience...
...tower afire and sent the bells crashing 253 feet to the floor. One huge stone column known as Pillar 58, which supports 2,000 tons of walls and roof, was blasted and bent. When the bombers were through with Rouen, the cathedral was a hollow, burnt-out shell in danger of collapsing completely...