Word: shell
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Wednesday afternoon shortly after their arrival at New Haven, the University crew motored to Derby, on the Housatonic river, where Saturday's race will be rowed. Coach Haines put the men through a stiff workout to accustom them to the new course and to the shell that has been rerigged for their...
This afternoon the eight will take a practice spin over the Housatonic course which is but a few miles from New Haven. Charlie Hart, the University boat-rigger, who has been in New Haven since the first of the week, has completed the refitting of a Yale shell with oarlock riggers in place of the latter's tholepin arrangement. On Thursday and Friday there will be stiff workouts both morning and afternoon with a short run scheduled for Saturday morning...
...companies will be drawn up on the road west of the Fresh Pond Reservation. They will move up to the system of trenches above Command Post Ridge and debouch in two waves to attack the enemy trenches. They will put into practice the latest methods of advancing from shell-hole to shell hole under fire as explained recently by Colonel Azan...
...attack and, in the words of General French, "saved the situation". Behind the city, under a grove of Canadian maples, lie six thousand of Canada's bravest sons, her first contribution in the Great War to the defence of the mother country. And now on the slopes about the shell-torn city stand England's own sons, gathered in the divisions of England's volunteer and conscript army. Commanders may debate the strategic value of the city as they did at Verdun, but the events of the last two weeks prove that if it is evacuated it will...
Both this morning and afternoon the University and Freshman oarsmen will take practice workouts on Lake Carnegie, paying especial attention to smoothing out their blade work in final preparation for the race tomorrow, and in accustoming themselves to the Princeton shell which has been rerigged to suit the University's style of rowing...