Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, 70, general managing director of potent Royal Dutch-Shell, divorced last month by Lydia Pavlovna Koudoyarov, Lady Deterding, on grounds of misconduct: and Charlotte Mina Knack, 38; in Amsterdam...
...eggs. When the larvae hatch from the eggs, they fall to the ground, dig in, attach themselves to a root at which they suck for 17 years. When the proper time arrives, they come out at dusk, climb a tree. In order to get out of the old shell in which it passed its infancy, the insect takes a firm toehold on the bark, arches its back. The shell splits and the cicada slowly works out of it. At this stage the insect is whitish, has red eyes. The frail, crumpled wings spread out and grow strong with incredible rapidity...
Starved for troops by the High Command, whose eyes were glued to the Western Front, Allenby launched a campaign up the coast of Palestine, taking Beersheba, Gaza, Bethlehem and Jaffa, splitting the Turkish armies. On Dec. 9, 1917, without firing a shell into the Holy City, he walked into Jerusalem, in deference to the Arab legend that Jerusalem's conqueror would enter on foot. Thenceforth the Arabs respectfully called him "El Nebi" ("The Man on Foot...
Divorced. Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, 70, Director General of Royal Dutch-Shell; by Lydia Pavlovna Kon-doyarov, Lady Deterding, daughter of one White Russian general, ex-wife of another; in The Hague. Grounds: misconduct...
Harvard's Varsity crew finished its unbroken sprint record this spring with another loss Saturday, to Cornell on Lake Cayuga. Both the Varsity and Jayvees lost over the two miles, the Big Red taking the first shell by three lengths in 10:38.3. Syracuse trailed the Harvard first and second boats by two and five lengths respectively...