Word: shells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last two miles eleven seconds faster than the first two miles. Quite unusual I think! Their nearest competitor was ⅛ of a mile behind and their stroke was held to 28 to the minute throughout the four miles. It is hard for me to conceive of a racing shell moving faster than theirs, yet Ed Foote's 1905 crew rowed one time trial at Poughkeepsie in 18 minutes 33 seconds and another one up stream in the phenomenal time of 18 minutes 24½ seconds...
...Charles River Basin with the first races of the week. In the contest for Senior Eights the first Freshman 150-pound combinations was the only crew entered and as a result rowed in the Junior Eights race. It won this contest with crew M, the Fourth University 150-pound shell, placing second ahead of the other three Junior Eights. J. A. Crooks '25, of the Union Boat Club, won the Senior Singles race...
...four crews got away from the temporary Cottage Farms Bridge at about 5 o'clock with the First Freshman and the Fourth 150-pound shells taking the lead. When the mile course was completed the First Freshman combination slipped across the line a length and a half ahead of the Fourth University shell with the Second University light weight eight third and the Fourth University shell with the Second University light weight eight third and the Fourth University shell last. This afternoon the Junior and Senior Eights will race...
...sympathy. But it was the opinion last week of most responsible eyewitnesses in China that the Nationalist armies (and all Chinese armies of today) are an irresponsible rabble, constantly committing acts of violence and depredation in the course of their incessant warfare. Japan, right or wrong, is using shot & shell to keep the rabble at a distance from Japanese colonists in Shan tung, and to prevent the overthrow of Chang Tso-lin whom Japan, rightly or wrongly, regards as the least undesirable of the Chinese war lords...
...last week approved the long planned consolidation with the Mackay Companies (TIME, April 2)-birds may perch on I. T. & T. land wires. Now, under all the seas, along the lead-bound cables of the I. T. & T. fishes may snip and gulp their food of slimy algae, dainty shell fish. The International Telephone & Telegraph Co. is ubiquitous by telegraph, cable, telephone, wireless, radio...