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Word: shells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lengthening the stroke and concentrating on power the Crimson fought back with power tens at both the 1300 and 1600 meter points and upped the cadence to a 39. Princeton however sprinted at the finish and crossed the line just two seats ahead of the Harvard shell in a race so close there was never a greater margin than three seats between...

Author: By Peter G. Wilcox, | Title: Lights Falter, Finish Second; Princeton Captures Jope Cup | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

Modest amounts of oil and gas have been produced in Michigan since 1925, but oil experts are reluctant to speculate about how much production is likely to increase in the years ahead. Nonetheless, big multinational oil companies, such as Shell and Standard Oil of Indiana, which have virtually carpeted the more than 80,000-acre Pigeon River Country State

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michigan's Sudden Bonanza | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...pearl of a playwright may emerge from the oyster bed of a wretched early home life. O'Neill, Williams and Miller provide eloquently autobiographical testimony to that. Woody Allen's The Floating Light Bulb seems distinctly autobiographical, but it is no more than a shucked oyster shell of a play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Home Rue | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...sales. Government regulations previously forced oil companies to keep some unprofitable marketing operations open, but now the firms can close them down. Texaco, which has long proudly proclaimed that it sold in all 50 states, is reducing the number of its stations in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. Shell Oil will soon no longer sell in upstate New York, upper New England or Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Oil's Surprising Problems | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...even worse weather, the Harvard lights outrowed MIT in the whitecapridden basin, while the Dartmouth shell fared worst of all--sinking bow first in the rough water. The winning time of 7:38.0 for the 2000-meter course was indicative of the wind and water conditions--a normal time for that distance is around...

Author: By Peter G. Wilcox, | Title: Harvard Heavies, Lights Take Crowns; Radcliffe Crews Race to Third, First | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

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