Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cars and over 500 men in service in Europe. Since the beginning of the war, 900 men have been with the Corps in one capacity or another, four of whom have been killed. Richard Hall, of Dartmouth, and William Kelley, of Philadelphia, met their death from shell-fire; Henry M. Suckley '10 was killed by an airplane bomb, and H. Sortwell '11 was crushed beneath a truck at Salonika. Over 400,000 wounded men have been carried by the American ambulances during the last three years, and at present the service is costing $80,000 a month...
...service. One of these has charge of all the base work such as the collection and organization of supplies. The other group is concerned with the work of taking supplies from the most advanced bases to the front; and there is the danger of being exposed to shell-fire in this...
...Champ '19 would certainly give the impression of being an earnest worker for the Illustrated. As in the "Auto Show" number, he has contributed two articles--both unusually interesting and calling for no small degree of of research. In the first, "Harvard Racing Shells," he traces the development of the shell from 1846, when the first Harvard crew rowed in the clumsy lap-streak barge "Oneida," to the efficient shells of today--those which lower records, on the Thames at New London. In "From Watch Hill to R. O. T. C.," the part that the University has played in former...
...rowing a 28 stroke, but this was quickly dropped to 24. From the beginning the Juniors pulled into the lead, and at the quarter-mile mark were ahead by a fourth of a length. The 1918 crew were smoother, and, rowing a higher stroke, put more drive into the shell. At the half-mile they had increased their lead to three lengths, which they maintained to the finish. The Sophomores did not put their stroke up until the last four hundred yards, and then it was too late to cut down the open water between the boats. The time...
...boats, and by the fact that others have had to report at Newport for work with the patrol squadron. Among these in the former class are D. L. Moody '18, rowing 5 in the first eight, and A. Potter '17 at bow in the same shell. Their places are being taken by N. Brazer '18 and N. Darling '17, respectively. C. Higginson '17 is being temporarily kept out of practice by the patrol squadron, and M. Taylor '17 has quit rowing for the remainder of the year to serve with the Aero Corps. On Saturday so many...