Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charley Whiteside, admiral of Harvard's eight-oared fleet, bundled himself a little more warmly in his heavy ba-ba coat, and turned to scan with a practised eye the husky and long-legged young gentlemen in the Varsity shell who were pumping down the Charles at a 24-beat-to-the-minute gait, trailing a long white streamer as they went...
...Crimson coach leaned out to bark further instructions, and the CRIMSON reporter waited for the opportunity to press his question. He knew that Whiteside has many gaping voids to fill in his Varsity shell before he'll be ready to match power and skill with the eggshell barks of Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Navy, and the rest. But after all, what is there to this business beside rowing and looking at the neck of the fellow in front...
...past three years Whiteside hasn't been bothered with any coxswain problem. There was always little, blond Hamilton Bissell to sit in the stern of the shell and tell his men this and that. Even now Whiteside's eyes crinkle with a reminiscent smile as he thinks of the manner in which the little fellow bossed those burly giants. Bissell teamed with Stroke Gerry Cassedy for three years, and the two went together like ham goes with eggs. Only once during their four years did Bissell's strategy actually go sour, and that one occasion only served to demonstrate further...
They noticed a large boulder on the shore of the lake, about a quarter of a mile from home. They decided that when the shell was abreast of that rock they were to skyrocket the beat...
...tree, there is a leopard in it. When a friendly potentate gives him a pig for Thanksgiving dinner, a python crawls halfway into the pig's pen, eats the pig, finds itself trapped. To catch langur monkeys, he makes a one-inch hole in a coconut shell, puts rice inside. The monkey can reach into the shell but can not withdraw its closed paw with the rice...