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Word: shields (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys off to New York under the watchful eye of the Distler chauffeur, James Parker. By the time they had reached Pennsylvania Station, crowds of news photographers were waiting for them. So was the Roosevelt chauffeur, James Kehoe. He rushed up and threw his arms around the boys to shield them from the photographers. Chauffeur Parker, misunderstanding the stranger's purpose, took a swing at Chauffeur Kehoe. While the two guardians traded punches and police leaped into the fray, Dirck Roosevelt became hysterical and Henry Distler fainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Groton Break | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...arts was started last year when Nathaniel Choate '22 was asked to design the medal to be presented for the first time at last year's dinner. The resulting medal, two and three quarters inches in diameter, with the club membership medal design on one side and a shield bearing the name of the recipient on the other, is embossed in silver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKS RECEIVES SIGNET ART MEDAL | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...light and glass are involved will be affected by this discovery. Of primary importance will be its practical application in eliminating 90 percent of headlight glare of oncoming cars. However this can be achieved only when Polaroid is in general use for, in order to be effective the wind shield must be polarized as well as the glass in auto headlamps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Development of Polaroid Glass Makes Three-Dimension Color Film Possible | 3/2/1938 | See Source »

...been discovered that Dr. Rhine's patented ESP cards can be read from the back when light is reflected from the back of the card at a certain angle. This, of course, is not true if a shield is interposed between the cards and the clairvoyant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Margery Plays Cards | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

MONTREAL, Feb. 16:--The Padlock Law is the first shield erected by a reactionary finance capital in Quebec to save it from the little silver bullets of free thought and speech. The straw man that is bearing the brunt of the Padlock Law is the red spectre of Communism. In its name the 'Red Raiders' have made use of the padlock some sixty times to date...

Author: By The STANFORD Daily and Arnold Issenman, S | Title: Quebec's Padlock Law Is Restriction Upon Speech Freedom by Reactionaries | 2/17/1938 | See Source »

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