Word: shell
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Sailing second in Shell Trophy...
...Ohio, knew when she entered Philadelphia's Drexel University that computers would play an important role in her college education. Like other entering freshmen, she had been informed that in addition to the first-year fees of about $9,000 for tuition, room and board, she would have to shell out $1,020 for an Apple Macintosh computer and a bundle of software. Indeed, when she arrived on the urban campus last month, dormitories, classrooms, offices and labs were already teeming with some 6,000 Macs...
...shell: the proper name for a thin boat, which holds one, two, four and eight rowers and perhaps a coxswain...
single: a shell with a single sculler...
stroke: the most important sweep in an eight. The stroke sits nearest the coxswain and sets the pace for the entire boat by determining the rate of of strokes per minute. Usually a shell will row around 36 strokes (28 for a head race) a minute but pick up the pace near the end of the race during the final...