Word: shells
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...packed full of a variety of extracurricular and academic commitments, meaning many students must somehow find a free moment to run to a dining hall. Consequently, it’s not hard to find an undergraduate who occasionally—and in many cases routinely—has to shell out cash to eat after missing Harvard’s limited 5-7:15 dinner dining hall hours. Yet just how widespread this problem is has been a matter of speculation until now. A UC report on dinner hours, made after an extensive 270 student phone survey, has shown that...
...imperial palace last inhabited by Wilhelm II crumpled into rubble. The great dome of the cathedral on the other side of Unter den Linden burst into flames and then collapsed. One shell hit a riding stable in the Tiergarten park, and the horses went galloping wildly down the Kurfürstendamm, their manes and tails on fire...
Bormann decided to attempt a breakout. Up on the street, he spotted a German tank and started to follow it. A Soviet shell scored a direct hit on the tank, and Bormann was never seen again...
...have a less distinct true orange flavor. Although McGee describes how eggs are washed during the process of being prepared for market, he does not add that the practice is prohibited in European Community countries because it removes the protective bloom, a film the hen deposits on the shell. McGee also gives scant coverage to vegetables, fruits, herbs and nuts, a shortcoming he acknowledges, calling them token entries, included to impart a sense of completeness to the work...
...area's most recognizable structure is what is now called the Atomic Bomb Dome, originally Hiroshima Prefecture's Industrial Promotion Hall, a sort of chamber of commerce building and exhibition hall in 1945. The remains stand just outside the point of the park, across the Aioi Bridge. This shell is Hiroshima's Eiffel Tower, its Statue of Liberty. Where the dome rose, only the supporting beams remain, a giant hairnet capping four floors of vacant gray walls, much of their outer skin peeled away, exposing patches of brick. The interior floors are also gone, making the entire structure an accidental...