Word: shell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...conceded much chance of providing the squad's more experienced oarsmen much competition, Curwen's shell, seated practically as it was last June at New London when it walked away from the Eli Freshmen, pushed colt Wagner's boatload to the very limit, as the two crews finished within inches of each other, well ahead of the other seven...
...conveyance was modern enough. Adolf Hitler's private car is made of the strongest steel, with heavy steel reinforcements along the floor. Although a bomb or a mine might lift the car from the tracks, nothing less than a direct hit by a heavy air bomb or artillery shell could pierce it. The car is heavily padded inside. Its windows are protected by thick steel shutters that can be brought down at a moment's notice...
...reason many athletes die in their fifties or sixties of coronary disease is not that they were athletic but that they were born with a ... [predisposing] tendency. . . . Five or six years ago ... a Harvard crew returned to college after some 50 years-all were over 70. They entered a shell and rowed down the Charles River. The only man in the crew who had died was the coxswain...
...Heeling over hard, the Ajax spurted forward out of their path, opened up with her 6-inch guns. Into the hull of one Italian smashed the first salvo, scarcely dispersed at the point-blank range. But the other attackers maneuvered their small guns into play, began pumping 3.9-inch shells back at the Ajax. With an orange-colored flash, an Italian shell plowed through an unarmored compartment forward on the Ajax. Next minute, a series of blasts roared from a second torpedo boat as the Ajax's shells reached her vitals. The vessel disintegrated...
...Foreigners owned 3 to 4% of the total stock outstanding in all domestic corporations. Of the 200 corporations surveyed, 17 paid over 10% of their dividends to persons living outside the U. S. Examples: Shell Union Oil, 80%; Singer Manufacturing, 18.8%; Anaconda Copper, 17.5%; Western Union...