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Word: shellful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lightweight eights class, the Crimson is sporting a strong boat that could very well row off with the laurels. Number four man in the shell, Gil Welch, feels the top spot will be tough to deal with." When you start first there's no competition to pass, and it's the passing that's half...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Crews and Chaos Descend on Charles | 10/25/1975 | See Source »

...week ago things looked pretty dim for the Mission Park Housing Project. Just a few days earlier William J. White, executive director of the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, dropped a bomb-shell by recommending to his board that the Harvard-backed development not receive a $39 million mortgage loan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MHFA Changes Its Mind | 10/18/1975 | See Source »

...great old army tank, hit decades ago by an enemy shell, sunken in a shallow lagoon. The iron flaps of the tank's turret are rusted open, steadily washed over by the waves; its corroded gun defiantly trains on trenches and machine-gun nests, long buried in the sands of a deserted beach...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: A New Jerzy | 9/19/1975 | See Source »

...officials. In a week filled with tradition, this meeting is a classic. Of course, the coolest people usually choose to sleep through it. But others will crowd into Memorial Hall in search of order in an otherwise chaotic first few days. Rather than inner peace, most freshmen come back shell-shocked. While you're busy wiping sleep out of your eyes, the go-getters are already at work, frantically waving hands, ready to ask questions of the guest lecturer that were prepared months ago. You'll stumble out firm in the belief that you need a year off or that...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Shuckin' and Jivin' | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...visit with his married sister at the kibbutz Tirat Tzvi, south of the Sea of Galilee in Israel, the amateur archaeologist and numismatist had little to show for his efforts. With the help of his $160 metal detector, he had uncovered many sardine cans, bottle caps and shell casings, but no coins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Emperor in the Dust | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

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