Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opened fire. Simultaneously. Captain Nolan, the aide who had brought the fatal order, galloped frantically across the van of the advancing brigade, waving his sword. "Had he suddenly realized that his interpretation of the order had been wrong?" No one will ever know, for at that moment a Russian shell fragment tore open Captain Nolan's heart...
...only undefeated major crews in the East, these three eights will be rowing for the honor of being the best shell on the Atlantic seaboard and probably in the country. At stake will be the Adams Cup and Navy's string of 23 consecutive victories over the past three years...
...Yardling shell, never behind, outdistanced Dartmouth and Yale threats beyond the Harvard bridge marker to win by a length over a game Big Green eight. Times were: Harvard 6:57, Dartmouth 7:01, Yale 7:07, M.I.T. and Tabor...
...cadence rose again to hit 36. Dartmouth sprinted but splashed considerable water. M.I.T. tired. And the Crimson shell stroked by the Tech boat house in 6:55. Dartmouth was clocked in 7:01.4, M.I.T. in 7:07.4, Yale in 7:14, and Tabor...
...silicon in the battery is first grown in pure crystals, cut into strips, then impregnated to a depth of only one ten-thousandth of an inch with minor impurities. The top surface is treated with boron, whose atom has one less electron in its outer shell than silicon has; the bottom layer is treated with arsenic, whose atom has one more electron in its outer shell than silicon has. When light strikes near the junction of the two layers, it pushes electrons to the bottom surface, pulls "holes" (electronless gaps) to the top surface, creating a difference in voltage...