Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enormous energy. The reaction may spread in a short time through most of the mass of the star. The energy released is enough to blow off the star's outer layer. All that remains, according to this theory, is a small, dense core of neutrons and a vast shell of flaming gas that burns itself out in a few months of splendor...
...device that cleans and sterilizes an egg, breaks it, removes the contents, separates the yolk from the white, and throws away the shell...
Just after 7 p.m., his moody beanpoles jockeyed their shell out into the Hudson. The coxswain dropped his arm, signaling to the starter that the Huskies were ready. At the gun, they dug furiously to get headway, then settled down to a smooth 30 strokes a minute...
Unreal Morning. That night in Jerusalem was the noisiest since Partition Day. Arab Legion artillery and mortar shells crashed into the Jewish quarters of the new town, kicked up clouds of white smoke and dust. Red tracers streaked across the domed roofs of the Old City. At dawn the Jews sent one last burst into the Arab positions. A shell exploded on the balcony of an Arab hospital, killing an attendant. As he was carried out of the ward, head hanging limply, a nurse whimpered: "He is dead. Did you see him die? He would have lived if the truce...
Harvard crews have been training at Red Top for far longer than the twenty years since the rebuilding. The first time a shell-load of oarsmen appeared in that vicinity was in 1881, when one building housed all the members of the expedition...