Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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James Harold Doolittle, crack Army speed pilot, experimenter in blind flying for the Guggenheim Fund (TIME, Oct. 7), stunter extraordinary (first outside looper), holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross, announced last week his resignation as Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, to become director of aviation for Shell Petroleum Corp. On leave of absence from the Army, Doolittle lately completed a 7,200-mi. roundtrip flight for the city of New York, making a research tour of airports throughout the land. His entry into commercial flying is not abrupt. For ten years has Flyer Doolittle been a 1st Lieutenant, total...
There is an average amount of good material for the University shell, while the Freshman prospects are reported to be of greater promise than in many years...
...want all kinds and shapes of shell...
...still small, but the number of universities which can boast superiority to Harvard in one, two, or three departments is large and growing larger. Great teachers, not fine architecture, are still the prime requisites of a great university. This is no hysterical cry that Harvard is a "hollow shell" of its former educational self, but a plea for constant, earnest effort to improve, enlarge, and maintain the group of men on whose shoulders must chiefly rest the burden of upholding Harvard's name. To no better advantage could the University put Mr. Wyeth's bequest...
...Graves' battalion as "the goggle-eyed b-r with the tit." Graves' nose had been broken boxing, so he had to have an operation while on leave in order to breathe through the mask. In July, 1916, he was so severely wounded in the lung by a shell that he was reported dead, and the colonel wrote a letter of condolence to his mother. Later, in England, he had difficulty cashing cheques because of his illegal vitality...