Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plunge. The insurance companies, which usually shy away from foreign oil investments, jumped in with both feet. Nine of the biggest U.S. companies and one Canadian snapped up the biggest industrial bond issue ever offered. Shell Caribbean Petroleum Co. of N.J. (a Royal Dutch-Shell subsidiary) announced that the insurance companies would buy $250 million worth of its 20-year, 4% bonds. As security for the loan, Shell Caribbean put up 8,800,000 shares (or two-thirds) of the stock of Shell Union Oil Corp., Shell's U.S. subsidiary (the stock's market value last week...
...watching his Kent School (Conn.) crew sprinting to victory past an English shell on the Thames, the Rev. Frederick H. Sill decided that British schoolboys ought to get a chance to visit the U.S. Last week chubby, blond Anthony Stewart Arnold was back in England, after a year at Kent on one of the Schoolboy Scholarships started by Father Sill 20 years ago. Like other young Britons who had made the trip last year, 18-year-old Tony Arnold thought that U.S. prep schools were great fun to visit-but no place to get an education...
...proudest idea was a new egg ("The yolk will be made of smoked meat, the white, of compressed rice, and the shell, of synthetic lime ... It will be delicious"). Under his remorseless hand, builders labored for half a century constructing pavilions, terraces, bridges and lakes. And still, he was never happier than when giving help to others; e.g., telling his tailor how to cut trousers, his tobacconist how to roll cigarettes, his banker about the banking system of the medieval Florentines...
...barter, he scandalized a housemaster at Eton by trying to pay for his son's education in pigs and potatoes. And when Osbert went to World War I with the Grenadier Guards, father Sitwell had, as usual, a practical suggestion to make. "Directly you hear the first shell, retire ... to the [cellar], and remain there quietly until all firing has ceased . . . Keep warm and have plenty of plain, nourishing food at frequent but regular intervals. And, of course, plenty of rest...
...Heyward has taken the "Emperor Jones" theme of a man who lets his lust for personal power overcome his honest conviction that he is sent from God to set his people free, and turned it into a more familiar setting, with interesting if not startling, results. Behind its exterior shell of the failure of a Negro uprising, "Charleston, 1822" stands as a probable explanation of why before 1863 the slaves were not ready for their freedom...