Word: armored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numerical standards, the Plan's first year has failed to make a perceptible dent on the shining armor of Harvard indifference to "unifying principles." The program has consisted of four parts: the Bliss Prize examinations; public lectures on aspects of American History; open lectures in the Houses and Union; and weekly discussion groups. Less than twenty men took the prize examinations. The public lectures were heavily attended, but largely by Cambridge ladies in search of culture. The open House lectures, aided by intriguing titles and movies, often drew more than a hundred undergraduates. But at the weekly discussion groups...
...Framed in armor-plated glass, fastened in by invisible glass screws to foil thieves, one of the four original copies of the Magna Charta, basic charter of freemen's rights handed by King John of England to his rebellious barons at Runnymede (A.D. 1215), arrived in Manhattan on the Queen Mary. Delivering the document to Mayor LaGuardia, to be sent to the New York World's Fair grounds, Sir Louis Beale, British commissioner-general to the fair, declared: "It is a treasure beyond price. . . . In this city and in this spot it is in the safest possible hands...
Most startling: Rosalind Russell finding victim No. 2 stuffed into a suit of armor...
Most elaborate diplomas in the U. S. today are those of the U. S. Naval and Military Academies. Annapolis' shows "Davy Jones' Locker'' (see cut, p. 59). West Point's has pictures of soldiers, drums, cannon, a suit of armor. As a general thing, however, the more important the school, the smaller and simpler the diploma...
...Pacific. Japan outnumbers the U. S. in some ship categories, particularly submarines. Leahy & Co. do not worry greatly about this, having small respect for Japanese numbers. By U. S. standards, the Japanese have yet to learn to build efficient surface ships, tend to overload them with disastrously topheavy armor and guns...