Word: shell
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...lure back fugitive investment money and to attract new capital, Lee offered five years' outright tax exemption to new industry. By last week Socialist Lee had landed eight new enterprises led by Shell, which is building an $18 million refinery...
...small to be dangerous, but they make a loud rat-a-tat-tat sound. To the space traveler, the chief harm that they can do is psychological. So Whipple suggests that the nerves of spacemen be shielded from this hazard by surrounding their capsule by a thin metal shell that wi!! intercept the speeding dust particles but will not transmit to the capsule the unnerving sounds that they make...
Poets & Philosophers. Today, probably not even Mencken would describe the Southern Baptists that way. With the Depression and the U.S.'s increasing concern over international problems, Southern Baptists began to come out of their provincial hard shell. Fundamentalism declined and social issues moved to the forefront-although the Baptists never took to the "Social Gospel." Today, hellfire and brimstone revivalists are increasingly scarce, and though emotion-packed evangelism is still part of every Baptist sermon, more and more Baptist preachers are university-trained. They read the classics, study foreign languages, keep informed on science. Richmond's Theodore Adams...
Glimp doubted a hike would cause any immediate problem since "everyone has been shell-shocked into expecting it" and because most of Harvard's "natural rivals" are near the same total cost. In the long run, however, rising tuition makes it tougher and tougher for the College to keep in contact with the economically poorer sections of the population--a contact it wishes to maintain, Glimp said...
...Detroiters reached the finals by outdistancing another Harvard crew, Eliot House. Despite inexperience and a borrowed, unfamiliar shell, the Eliot group had passed eights from Queen's University of Belfast and the Kensington Rowing Club...