Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going begging in South Africa. But see here, what was this? The masthead which had remained unchanged for the past 144 years was all different. Instead of Gothic lettering it was set up in block lettering. And there were no horizontal lines enclosing the date below it. The titular coat of arms was not the same. And to cap that, the type face of the entire paper was different...
...making its change, the Times had gone forward and backward at the same time. Its coat of arms was resurrected from the top of the Daily Universal Register (founded 1785), the Times's predecessor. The arms included the fleur-de-lis, implying Britain's claim to the throne of France which was not relinquished until 1801. As if aware that this revival might be a source of irritation to readers across the Channel, the renewed lion looked considerably more fierce, more vigilant...
...rule him out of consideration. It may well be that it is impossible to make a profit on the buildings through rentals. Again it should be obvious that the University cannot make the rooms increasingly lower and lower. But the increase of moderate priced rooms, to bring the average coat below the supposed $300 mark is something which at the present time, due to the student's decreased ability to pay, in many cases, is a change that the house masters should unite in accomplishing...
...Agua Caliente Handicap last March-was away from home. But last week on Futurity Day at Belmont Park, L. I., Easterners rubbed their eyes and stared at a big red figure standing in the paddock.* It was Phar Lap. He had not returned to life, but the glossy coat was Phar Lap's and the ridges beneath it looked precisely like the powerful muscles that had made him great. His owner, David J. Davis, had had the Phar Lap carcass reconstructed, was exhibiting it at Belmont before sending it home to Australia...
...tension, and the Great Man entered, with an accustomed witticism, and the Great Man seated himself on the steps of the rostrum to await the end of the Statesman's oration. The Vagabond's chief interest is in men, not things, and he recognized in the upturned coat-collar and twinkling eye of the Great Man signs of the culprit. Then the explanation burst upon the observer, and he longed to tell of the culprit's crime...