Word: shield
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...four separate items, a brush a razor, after shaving lotion, shaving soap, and a space to hold blades. The whole thing measures four inches across. It's a great gimmick for people who make overnight trips. Complete, it comes to $7.50 and it has a special 14 karat gold shield on the top where initials can be engraved. Shreve, Crump and Lowe will handle the works before your Christmas exodus. This traveling iron is another article from Shreve's. Imported from England it's a necessity for people who travel. About four inches long it's made for use both...
Gone are the small-print clauses; there remains a list of eight charities, chosen by the drive committee, which are only superficially obscured by a large pink veritas shield. The committee reports that it chose these charities carefully, basing its decision mainly on the percentage of its income which the organization devotes to actual charity work, as opposed to publicity...
...department at Boston Children's Hospital. The year was 1903 and the X ray was only seven years old. As Dr. Brown later wrote, "Enthusiasm was in the saddle, accoutered with the lance of investigation and the spurs of continued experimental revelation, but not yet with the shield and armor of protection...
Fourment, Dierick Bouts's The Annunciation and Rembrandt's Pallas Athena (for which the artist's adolescent son Titus had posed in a glittering helmet and shield). Gulbenkian had bought all three of them from the famous Hermitage collection of the Russian czars, after persuading the Soviet Union to part with them...
Despite the AMA's resistance, Blue Cross hospitalization insurance took hold, and so did Blue Shield medical insurance, beginning in 1946. Meanwhile, many doctors had become convinced that voluntary plans were not enough; the AMA's resolute opposition to any plans at all left them no choice but to accept the principle of government insurance. At this late date, the lines of battle having moved beyond them, the AMA decided that it was time to back the voluntary plans...