Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their opponents, the Winthrop House Boating Club, admitted no fear before the race, although one "Winnie" commented, "That's a powerful lot of girls!" But, once the girls split up and the race started, the smooth stroking of the Smith-coxed shell brought it victory by at least a length...
...Smithies played innocent before the contest, saying they had "little experience in such affairs." However, before the climactic race started, the eight Western Massachusetts inhabitants took out a shell--despite loud fears voiced by the cox (or is it coxess?) that the boat could not possibly fit between the piers of the bridge...
Because of a Smith regulation forbiding direct competition with male schools, the men from Winthrop "will probably row with them, rather than against them." Each shell will consist of four Puritans and four Sophians. If the two schools should race against each other, however, "there is no doubt who would lose. It's brain over brawn in this sport," according to referee Blake Dennison...
...rays. But World War II had begun, and weapons came first. Van Allen was put to work on the development of proximity fuses, which called for something almost inconceivable in 1940: a radio transmitter-receiver that could stand being fired out of a cannon in the nose of a shell. At the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Silver Spring, Md., just outside Washington, Van Allen was a junior scientist in the proximity fuse business, but it made him an expert on how to pack complex circuitry into a small space and make it rugged enough to survive abuse. Working...
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