Word: shelled
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Toward Homogenization. The Presbyterianism of Eugene Carson Blake has come a long way from Geneva. Young America had much to do with the change. Again and again the old-line, hard-shell predestinarians-who believed in expounding the Word on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, confident that the elect would get the message-were successfully challenged by the evangelicals, who felt that the Holy Spirit needed all the help he could get from a good preacher...
Like a sharecropper's abandoned cabin, Georgia's Taliaferro County has been quietly decaying for 30 years, until little is left but the shell. When the boll weevil destroyed the cotton crops of the '20s, the young people began to pull out and head for the cities. The population dropped from 8,841 in 1920 to 6,278 in 1940 to 3,370 today. It is falling still. Says Mrs. Grace Beazley, a county health worker: "Our families are just an old man and his wife sitting on the porch together...
...winning boat contained Peter Higginson, Brian Catlin, Jim Adkins, Lloyd Dahman, John Lyden, George Simmons, Miles Walsh, and Nick Carrera. The crew raced in Eliot's new shell--some ten years newer than the newest of the other House boats--and now plans to spend this summer racing abroad...
Eliot to Use New Shell...
...make the other crews' plight even more hopeless, Eliot will be allowed to use its new shell in this afternoon's championship. Paid for by private contributions, the Eliot shell is at least ten years newer than the newest of the other House boats. The advantage could be as much as two or three seconds...