Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more basis for ignoring the deadly gamble that the U.S. was taking in cutting back on its defenses. In fact, the President sounded disturbingly like the man at the carnival, happily willing to gamble the farm on the conviction that the pea was under the middle shell...
...perverted whim, probably a lust for spectacle, impelled the athletic directors of the entering schools to run the regatta in one big race rather than in heats, as is customary. This could mean that the boat rowing in lane one may travel under entirely different tidal conditions than the shell in lane...
Gift of an anonymous donor, the $2,000 shell will be used in competition for the first time during the four-mile race with Yale June 23. It was constructed in the Seattle shop of George Pocock, famed West Coast boat builder...
Bolles has been head coach here since 1936. His crew will row in its old shell when it defends its Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges championship at Annapolis Saturday...
...McCagg stroked the Crimson shell at a 31 beat for most of the race, which was according to custom, but in the final sprint found himself compelled to take it up to 37 and then 40, a greater effort than was necessary in all but the Yale race last year...