Word: shellful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...diplomats of Jersey Standard, Shell and Texaco were anxiously waiting for Congress to write a law that would give them a freer hand in production, refining and distribution. Always before, the government had felt that Brazilians should control sales in Brazil. Now, with Dutra looking their way, the companies might get a law to their liking...
...contemporary newsman reported that Daumier looked like one of his own cruelest caricatures, "but if one . . . tries to penetrate this bourgeois shell, the features soon brighten into life. That little eye with its heavy lid, half-closed in perpetual winking, thrusts at you its clear sharp look . . . even his nose seems to enjoy the observations he has just made...
...going to be a crowded place. Bolles still has seven boatloads of aspirants for position in the Varsity shell, and not until vacation will he shave that total down. Then, he dismisses all but 25 or 30 of that number, who "know the honeymoon is over," and start intensive, twice-a-day workouts which often cover up to twenty miles of water...
...Down. Yale's President Charles Seymour picked a big businessman (American Brake Shoe's President Bill Given) to head a "committee on university development." It cost $7,500,000 to run Yale in 1941; more than $12 million in 1947. President Seymour wanted alumni to shell out ("The only alternative is deterioration in a Yale education"). Yale has already increased its tuition charges for undergraduates to $600, and doesn't feel it can raise them any more...
...fatherly pat on the head, the Boston sports columnists have welcomed Arthur Valpey to the Harvard scene. Most of them have taken great care to show him that Harvard football is not Michigan football and that he will probably break down and weep when he sees the puny, soft-shell Hahvuds he has inherited. "Good luck, son--you're going to need it!" is the warning...