Word: shell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like a great walnut cleaned of its meat, it lies there a shell-no timber, no coal, no petroleum, no farm land really farmable." Twenty-five years ago, people first moved in numbers to Breathitt, to cut trees for railroad ties. The hills were stripped, the timber business expired, floods washed the topsoil off the farms."Now one farmer after another has given it- up as a bad job, has even deserted land he owns...
...course of trying to throttle Germany. British aircraft had flown over Norwegian territory scouting for German ships using Norway's coastal sea lanes. British warships had entered Norwegian water to sink German ships. One of them fired a shot across a German's bow and the shell landed ashore, albeit unexploded, near the Varhaug railway station on Norway's southwestern tip. Norwegians muttered that if British intrusions did not stop, Norway might stop leasing much-needed tankers and freighters to Great Britain...
Etcher Joseph Pennell called it "that Greek garage." But the sun-colored classic shell of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is big enough to house the Parthenon in part of one wing. For 20 years, on its rock above the Schuylkill, it has been abuilding. Less than half of its seven-acre floor space is finished and open to the public. Even so, it is a notable museum. This week it became still more notable with the opening of a whole new Oriental wing...
...Mannerheim and Maginot Lines, but the tissues of the human brain, and he thinks they are still in good order, even though they are taking a terrific battering in these times. Mr. Sherwood is distinctly uneasy when he looks at the part America is playing in this cellular shell-fire, but he doesn't get around to saying what we should do about it. It's just as well, because a man as aroused as Mr. Sherwood may not have his own brain cells under discipline...
...feminine lead in Bethel Merriday is an earnest small girl from a middle-class New England household who takes college theatrics seriously, gets her pa to shell out $425 for ten weeks of apprenticeship at an arty summer theatre. The old Lewis ear for idiom goes to work on airy Director Roscoe Valentine ("So beautifully fallible!"); the old Lewis Saturday Evening Post touch appears in godlike, athletic Andy Deacon, Yale and Newport, amateur actor and angel to the company. Bethel Merriday learns the talk, the tricks, the hard-working realities of acting. She would agree with her creator that...