Word: shells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday, the election of Ward Irvin Gregg '28 of Calumet, Michigan, as captain of the 150-pound oarsmen for the 1928 season was announced. Gregg is an Exeter graduate and rowed No. 6 on the first shell last year. He will continue at this position during the spring...
Soon Dutch newshawks gave the tragedy world interest by rushing off to scribble that Mevrouw Van Eeghen is the niece of mighty Sir Henri Deterding, Director General of the internationally potent Royal Dutch Shell (Oil) Group. Shrewder newshawks stressed Mevrouw Van Eeghen's unique distinction; she was, last week, the only female member of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. To find a similar business woman in the U. S. one must search out pretty, audacious Miss Peggy Cleary of Manhattan (TIME, April 2), the spinster-stockholder who bid $375,000, last fortnight, in an effort to obtain a seat...
...helping hand of hypnotism has long been recognized in medicine. Last fortnight it was lauded on opposite sides of the globe. Professor William Brown at Oxford University told in the second of the Terry lectures at Yale about curing alcoholics, drug addicts, shell shocked soldiers by hypnosis.* In Odessa, Russia, Dr. J. Kalachnik reported the successful use of hypnosis in childbirth...
...boat favored by the statistics to win the inter-squad regatta is the one stroked by Captain John Watts '28, the pace-maker for Crew C. The four stern oarsmen of this shell, Watts, Guy Murchie '29, Oliver Ames '28, and B. J. Harrison '29 are more powerful and experienced than any of the other combinations...
Engaged. Janet Phillips, socially able eldest daughter of Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr., Oklahoma & Pennsylvania oil & gas oligarch, onetime (1923-1927) Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, and director of, among other companies, the Shell Union Oil Corp.; to Leander McCormick-Goodhart, U. S.-born, English-educated subject of H.M. King George V, now commercial secretary of the British Embassy at Washington...