Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshman heavy shell will take part in tomorrow's regatta against Princeton and Tech over the mile-and-three-quarters course. Charlie Rimmer, newly elected captain and number seven man, will lead his mates against reputedly strong opposition, while Jim Homans will be in the stroke's slide for the opener today...
Flying up and down the Charles these spring days are four distinct varieties of oarsmen: Varsity, Junior Varsity, Freshmen, and 150's. Those in the last group, however, into a special classification. Their standard racing shell is two inches narrower and a shade lighter than the others, and their usual racing distance is shorter by seven sixteenths of a mile. Weight restrictions limit their boat average to an even one fifty and their individual poundage to a hundred and fifty five...
Each House will put its own shell on the river in competition for the Agassiz Trophy, but only a few will have their own launches. Coaches for several of the crews are drawn from tutors in residence at the Houses...
...Galtsoff has a practical objective: protecting U.S. oyster beds from snails, which eat about $6,000,000 worth of oysters each year. The drills gnaw a hole in the oyster shell with a filelike organ called a "radula"; then they insert the toothed front end of their stomach and nibble the oyster away. Conchs do their dirty work on the edge of oyster shells. When all the oysters have been eaten, they file holes in one another...
...were fired, Ecuador's social laws would force Shell to pay out more than 1,000,000 sucres ($78,750) in severance...