Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madrid's siege-front 3,000 Rightists, bottled up amid the wreckage of University City, were in bad shape. With little or no drinking water, crouching in shell holes, they waited day after day for General Franco's main body on the other side of the Manzanares River to come to their aid. General José Miaja, Leftist commander in central Spain, by loudspeakers ordered the trapped Rightists to surrender or be annihilated. They received the ultimatum with grim defiance, and by week's end were still holding their ground, besieged within a siege...
...smashing defeat of the Tiger oarsmen by a rejuvenated Harvard shell on Lake Carnegie last Saturday strikes a high point in the comeback of Crimson athletics which has been developing over the current year. With a football team that turned the tables on the predictions of newspaper sages the country over, a court squad that made good its claim to major-sport ranking, and a swimming team that left the prize Bulldogs waterlogged and weary for the first time in thirteen years, the college has burst forth with another top-flight sport...
...skyscrapers as Manhattan's are nearly ideal in resisting bombs and shellfire but the low brick buildings of most European capitals are comparative death traps, according to Madrid dispatches last week. The city's only real skyscraper, the Telefonica, had not only taken the punishment of 43 shells and bombs but its automatic Spanish-built switchboards continued efficiently to serve most of the 53,000 telephone subscribers in Madrid and, despite the horrors of a siege now entering its sixth month, the great majority of these Madrid subscribers have continued to pay their telephone bills. When...
With Conway came others involuntarily--a palcontologist, a consumptive female, a rough public utilities swindler, and Conway's weak worldly brother. All except the last are won over to the Utopia. In the wink of an eye the blonde seems to lose her consumption and her hard shell; similarly, the other two relax into a happy existence. Conway himself sees a dream come true...
...York Produce Exchange began trading in frozen eggs two years ago, but in this product as in shell eggs New York remains primarily a spot market. *Not burying but drying or sealing in alkaline paste. The latter method, by which old eggs attain a rare delicacy (for the Chinese) comparable to that of old brandy (for Westerners), has never found favor...