Word: unicorn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first speaker of the day-of any of the five convention days-advanced to the microphone, floor and galleries began filling up, and the convention came alive. Photographers jostled in belligerent knots, each holding a camera to his eye like a unicorn adjusting his horn. Heat and humidity rose. Coats came off and the face of the crowd moved with the urgent fluttering of thousands of cardboard fans. Within minutes it was hot enough to grow orchids...
...Club's annual show, "A Bride for the Unicorn" was nearly cancelled when then President Ada Comstock of Radcliffe refused to permit 'Cliffe undergraduates to act in the play because the parts "were unsuitable for young women to play...
...Lion & Unicorn. Philosopher D'Arcy is mainly concerned with the twofold aspect of love-eros (love in its selfish, passionate forms) and agape (the selfless Christian love for one's neighbor, which Paul called "charity"). Most philosophical speculation on the subject has posed these two as ancient enemies. They have sometimes been symbolized by the Lion (eros) and the Unicorn (agape) which "went fighting round the town...
...Moseley's third line, with Bill Ayres and George Gebelein at wings, had an active and effective evening which saw Ayres score twice. Freshman mentor Stan Priddy teamed with Greeley Summers to form a rugged Unicorn defense. With Goodie Harding making his usual incredible stops, the B.A.A. goal was undented for 27 minutes. Hockey Summaries HARVARD (6) B.A.A. (7) Crocker rw Harding, W. Key c Beebe Feloney lw Loring Preston rd Summers Greeley, R ld Priddy Lavalle g Harding...
...Reader Gifford is right as a Ribstone pippin on the fact, may be a little off on the timing. Another story: lion & unicorn were torn down by Colonial soldiers after the British evacuated Boston March 17, 1776. To TIME's reporter, a backward look for discounting the ardor of his Revolutionary forbears...