Word: blazoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pierre la Rose, one of the world's best-known and most picturesque authorities on horaldry, has re-designed the Harvard Seal, following the official blazon, but making the outlines clearer and narrowing the shield. An impression of this seal will be affixed to all Latin diplomas, but those printed in English will have the University arms emblazoned in crimson...
Crowds swarm down the midway, full of booths with popcorn, and whirling wheels; banners blazon forth the particular peculiarities of the inhabitants of the side show; and above it all, the calliope sounds the motif of a gala occasion in the life of every farmer--the state fair. Into this bucolic paradise, Abel Frake drives his Ford, his family, and his Hampshire boar Blue...
...Svinhufvud, mistranslated "Pig's Head," means "Boar's Head." The name derives from the family crest, an aristocratic blazon which the Svinhufvuds share with the Dukes of Argyll, Harvard's Porcellian Club and Gordon...
...blazon of Henry Dunster, which is on the right wing of the House, facing the river, is to the casual observer just three more elks with the top of a castle and a bent arm on top, but here is the official description: "Arms...