Word: shells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University crew had a long workout again yesterday with the same combination that has been working together during the last week. They are excepting to send these men into an rerigged shell today or tomorrow with Terry stroking from the starboard side and corresponding changes all along the line...
...been at 4 all the season, but who is now being given a rest on account of slight indigestion. J. D. Jameson, whom the coaches consider one of the strongest oarsmen on the squad will take his place; he has already been tried out in the first shell and works in very well...
...Howe, not satisfied with the one they have been using, tried out a different shell with his Freshman yesterday. The present shell is of the same make as the other, a Davy, built in Cambridge, but it is much lighter and is expected to aid the Freshmen in doing even better than they have...
...great breaches in the walls of the buildings, and where a Turkish shell had come down through the three stories of College Hall and burst in the basement among the French provisions. They showed us the Professor' residence, where a number of officers and soldiers had been killed or wounded by Turkish cannon fire from a mountain six miles to the north, and where a few minutes later members of a relieving party had met the same fate. We saw the president's house, where there is not a whole pane of glass left, where the long back veranda...
...blue and several moments before the Crimson. Now came Navy's long awaited spurt and her supporters gave evidence of the fact that they had confidence in its outcome. Up, up went the stroke to 36, while the Navy oarsmen kept up their long stroke and almost touched the shell with their backs as tirey lengthened out. But Leh would not let the Annapolis men get ahead and for every foot they gained made them struggle at their highest stroke. At that, the Navy's gain was no enough to put her up to the Tigers until Leh made...