Word: shell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the very start there was little doubt as to the eventual outcome. In the first ten strokes Bits Curwen paced his boat to a deck-length advantage, and the big Harvard shell kept the power on all the way down the course, going over the line a three-length victor...
...water outboard with chronological precision, and following a powerful pull-through, dip cat with scarcely a splash, all leaving the water at exactly the same moment. Inboard the crew is not quite as balanced, but what few faults there are seem to counteract each other, and the shell's run, even at very high strokes, has been the envy of all who have seen...
Harvard's 1941 crew may well the best eight in the country but no one will ever have a chance to learn for sure if it is. The Crimson record of leaving every opponent somewhere in the wash of the shell is undisputably perfect so far as it goes, but Harvard can make no sure claims even to a mythical championship so long as there are undefeated boats in the country against which the Crimson 0arsmen haven't raced...
Only one way of establishing a valid claim to supremacy exists-victory at the Poughkeepsie regattas. Over the years the race on the Judson has emerged as a sort of national tournament and the winner is hailed as the champion. Harvard and Yale have never yet entered a shell in the Vassertown sweepstakes, mainly, it would seem, because the even would be an anti-climax to their own New London affair, which comes one or two weeks sooner. The Crimson and the Blue never get a chance to test their speed against that of the crews on the rest...
...Army's Ordnance Department used to be proud of its relatively light (850 lb.), highly mobile anti-tank gun. Ordnance officers encouraged reports that the 37-mm. shell could pierce 1½-inch armor at 1,000 yards, tear through even heavier armor at shorter ranges. Ignored or denied were contrary complaints in the Army that the gun had been hastily adapted from an already obsolescent German model, that the U.S. version lacked the punch to stop modern tanks, that at best the gun worked none too well. Even after the Army quietly turned to 75-mm. field pieces...