Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ullie Iselin, captain of the crew, began rowing again yesterday after several weeks of inactivity caused by an attack of virus pneumonia. Instead of moving to his number three slot in the varsity boat, however, Iselin took over Cal Dickinson's number three place in the J.V. shell...
...against China. They say it will provoke Russia to attack if we send troops to Europe-but they are sure Russia won't be provoked if we carry the war to China.They say they want to crush Communism —and yet they want us to go back into our shell, and let the rest of the world be overrun by the Reds. They say they are worried because the Russians outnumber us—but they are not interested in keeping allies who can help...
Tincture of Pride. In The Morning Watch, Writer James Agee has come close to a small triumph; he has pierced the protective shell of a boy's personality and exposed the religious exaltation of the boy without once falling into bathos. During the watch in the chapel, Richard's deepest thoughts and feelings are disturbed by weak flesh and childish imaginings: he is kneeling, and his knees and back hurt, disturbing the purity of his devotions; he remembers his silly effort at self-mortification through eating worms; he imagines himself upon the cross and hearing the school...
They lost the race, but they wound up with the Cambridge shell...
While 12,000 onlookers cheered the winning Cantabs and while Crimson devotees dunked their last beercans, the Harvard rowers quietly took possession of the shell that beat them. The whole idea came from J. Oliver Filley '06, captain of the 1906 Crimson eight, who bought the shell, complete with its oars and bell system. Not even Tom Bolles knew what the varsity would do with it, but he said after the race that the crimson at least would "experiment" with its newest trophy...