Word: shells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University crew has rowed two brief time trials in front of the Newell boathouse to test the comparative speed of the Pocock shell which it rowed in the triangular race, and the new Lutz boat. They rowed a little more than a third of a mile each time, first in the Pocock and then in the Lutz, and they rowed the distance about a second faster in the latter shell...
Accordingly, the new Lutz boat has been shipped to Ithaca in addition to the first and second University Pocock, the red cedar shell recently presented to the University as a present by R. F. Herrick '90, and made by Pocock, the famous boat builder who has supplied shells for the victorious Washington State eights for a number of years past. If Lake Cayuga is smooth tomorrow at the time of the Cornell race, the University may row the new Lutz boat, but if the water is at all rough the crew will row the shell it is used...
...There, take,' says Justice, 'take ye each a shell...
Justice Peters retired and weighed long the doubtful right, weighed it carefully for 16 days. Then he oped the shell. He declared: "The Irish Republic never existed as a government de facto . . . and the Irish Free State could not, therefore, succeed it." From this logical conclusion Justice Peters gave judgment against both the Irish Republic (i. e. Mr. de Valera) and the Irish Free State. He directed, instead, that all legal costs arising from the action shall be paid out of the $2,500,000, and that what remains shall then be divided pro rata among the original contributors...
...hands of Kent School's powerful oarsmen, may give Yale, victor by a few feet over Tech last Saturday, a surprise. The Sophomore crew will have to show marked improvement to cross the line at the end of the West Boston Bridge ahead of the Blue 1928 shell...