Word: shields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Johnson, who also won the Yale Interscholastic title two weeks ago, emerges the individual victor, his school team ties for second place with Exeter, while Loomis School annexes the shield for the winning team with a total of 16 points. This is the second year in succession that Loomis has won the tournament...
...thirty-fourth annual Harvard Interscholastic tennis tournament will start this morning at 9.30 o'clock on the Jarvis Field courts. Nine schools have signified their intention of entering six-men teams, while two others will be represented by individual competitors. The winning team will be awarded a shield, while the individual winner and runner-up will receive a gold and silver medal respectively...
...divided into six panels, three upper ones and three lower ones. The lower set of panes are decorated with a picture of St. John baptising a child, while the upper row is taken up with the coat of arms of Great Britain, flanked on one side with the shield of Harvard University, and on the other by the shield of Emmanuel College, the alma mater of John Harvard...
...first thing he did was to put up the barriers, to step behind a shield of Presidential immunity from direct quotation. The gulf between his past and his present was staggering. He had made his career on the same plan as a young man, able but conservative, who goes into a bank, works hard, tries to be efficient, puts by, bit by bit, takes his annual raise and with reasonably good fortune rises eventually to an undistinguished executive post. Imagine such a man suddenly being thrust into high and rather frenzied finance. Such, largely, was Coolidge in politics...
...became public last week. The coat of arms of West Point Military Academy, borne for many a year, was discovered to have been adopted with a number of wretched errors in heraldry. It consists of a helmet, pierced by a sword pointing diagonally downward, imposed upon a vertically striped shield. The whole is surmounted by an eagle. The direction of the sword was from upper right to lower left, the same as the "bar" or, more correctly, the "bend-sinister" (denoting illegitimacy). The eagle faced to the right so that, when carried on a banner, it faced away from...