Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong sophomore element in the first boat reverses Coach Tom Bolles' early March boating estimates of a varsity shell made up mostly of voteran oarsmen and confirms his early March statement that building crews is full of imponderables...
...eight oarsmen in the varsity shell began rowing as a crew April 13 and took time trials Saturday and Wednesday. While not up to last year's boat because of its late start, Bolles reports his varsity has "definitely improved in the last seven days--for which God be thanked...
...most conspicuous absence from the varsity shell is Ted Anderson, who rowed at five oar in the first boat last year. Anderson has worked on a different side at six oar this season and hasn't adjusted fully to the switch yet. He will row in the J.V. boat tomorrow along with Charlie Rimmer, Buffy Bohlen, Bill Bliss, John Caner, Al Carter, Frank Peale, Art Rouner, and George Walker...
Bolles feels fairly confident, though, that this year's crew will develop with a little time. It should. The four sophomores come from an undefeated shell which ran the varsity crew several close races in practice last year. Those back from the varsity worked in a boat that was the sprint champion of the East and lost only the traditional four mile race with Yale, an upset in which both crews broke records...
...glance. The face of the Virgin looked like that of Dali's businesslike wife Gala, but he had given her a Raphaelesque pose, fixed her in a harshly geometrical composition and surrounded her with a Renaissance vocabulary of symbolic images. For example, the egg suspended from the scallop shell over her head was taken from a 15th Century Madonna by Piero della Francesca. The shell symbolized baptism, the egg, Resurrection...