Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Parker has had the oarsmen working out with a new-fangled, v-shaped, high-in-the-water, but slightly unstable Carbocraft shell during the weekday workouts, but the varsity has yet to abandon the reliable and more stable Schoenbrod model for any races...
Little Oskar's story makes a fine scenario and Tin Drum is marvelously entertaining, even engrossing at times. Yet a question persists: why make this film? Must every literary classic stumble shell-shocked onto the screen? Time and a host of bad adaptations have shown that literature and cinema are not compatible cousins, that by their very nature, good novels will not make good films, just as the exciting visual effects of film cannot be duplicated in print...
...going after domestic heavy crude, the U.S. could double its present oil reserves of 29 billion bbl. The leading heavy oil producer is Shell Oil, which is already pumping 85,000 bbl. of it per day. That is about 20% of the company's total U.S. output and nearly half the nation's total heavy oil production. The company last year paid an estimated $3.5 billion for the Kern County oilfields of Belridge Oil Co., which are believed to contain up to 375 million bbl. of heavy crude, by far the largest such deposit in the country...
Then, at the 1500-meter mark, stroke Courty Gates upped the cadence from 33 to 35, bringing the shell to within one and one-half seats of MIT with about 20 strokes left in the race...
...school accident at the age of twelve, not disease, that cost Wilson his sight. Resolutely, he went on to take a degree in law and sociology at Oxford, then to aid the British war effort by placing the blind at work alongside sighted people in factories-"making shell cases and bits and pieces of transport vehicles and aircraft." After the war, at 26, Wilson was sent on a Commonwealth tour to make a survey of people blinded during the conflict. Everywhere he encountered the sightless. But it soon became evident that malnutrition and disease, not bullets and shrapnel, had cost...