Word: shells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have the lead, but the crews were all bunched. After a hundred yards the stroke lowered the beat with the Navy as low as 28 or 30 and using its tremendously long follow-through, while Princeton and Harvard held the beat higher at 32 or 34. As the shells cut through the water against the strong current and the slight head wind everyone was expecting to see the midshipmen settle into a stroke whose power would drive them into the lead, while Princeton and Harvard fought it out for second place. But the spurt did not come and Annapolis...
...evident, then, that the greater part of the more promising Colombian deposits is in the hands of Americans, though it may be noted in this connection that the Carib Syndicate is associated with the British-controlled Burlington-Royal Dutch Shell interests in the exploitation of the western Venezuelan fields adjoining the Colombian properties of that syndicate...
After today's practice, the shells which the crows will use will be started on their way to Lake Carnegie. University A will use the new Sims shell, and B the boat which the first University eight rowed in last year...
...boat races is based upon the long-established tradition that the longer race is the better test of skill and stamina. Back in the fifties when Harvard crews used barges on the Charles, the course was almost invariably three or four miles long. The introduction of the less cumbersome shell only tended to confirm the adoption of a protracted contest as the culminating event of the year. Although it is generally conceded that the short race puts a more severe strain upon the crew, there has been enough discussion in its favor to warrant serious consideration of the question...
There are three new men in Yale's' first shell since her defeat at the hands of Penn. Cowles has come up to 3, displacing Haldeman; Payson, who was shifted to Martin's place at 4 last week, has just exchanged places with Captain Hord, and is now rowing at 6; and, most important of all, Leslie, who stroked the victorious Junior crew against Penn, has taken the stroke oar in the first boat away from Hemingway. Only four men will row today as they sat in the shell on April 16. They are Whitney at bow, Carman...