Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sunday before last Fox Movietone Cameraman Eric Mayell and Universal Newsreel's Norman Alley, lugging their cumbersome apparatus, struggled down to Nanking's shell-smashed Bund and frantically waved at a gunboat which was headed upriver. The Chinese were fleeing Nanking and Mayell and Alley did not plan to remain with a handful of their colleagues to witness the triumphal Japanese entry. The departing gunboat put off a motor sampan, which returned to pick them up. Thankful for their rescue and still a little worried for the safety of their friends they left behind, Mayell and Alley were...
...shell from sea, by bomb from...
Houston--Secretary, Richard A. Stout '29, Legal Dept., Shell Petroleum Corp., Houston, Texas...
...babies studied musketry while mother filled a shell...
...show, however, had one crisis. From among 75 black, blue, red, chocolate, cinnamon, silver, champagne, fawn, and agouti-colored rats & mice, and from 150 white, blue-cream, smoke, red tabby, and tortoise-shell cats, a Siamese named Marvella and a fancy rat named Minnie were chosen to appear together in an amicable picture. When Cat Marvella reached out a tentative paw of friendship. Rat Minnie flew into a huff, sank her sharp teeth into the paw. Marvella whimpered, withdrew her foot...