Word: emblem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wearers of the Cross. In World War II De Gaulle was commander of the 507th Regiment of the Chars de Combat, drawn from the neighborhood of Metz in Lorraine. The two-barred Cross of Lorraine was a part of the badge. When General de Gaulle sought an emblem for Free France he chose the Cross of Lorraine, with the motto Honneur, Patrie. The former word is missing from Vichy-france's motto...
When you pick up a book from Widener, therefore, the chances are fairly good that you will find on its back the Bindery's trademark, an emblem with the words "Harvard University Library" printed in g ld. The gold is practically ten carat quality, but is so thin that it is worth almost nothing. Although the Bindery at the present time has $400 worth of gold leaf in its possession, would-be purloiners will have a hard time getting...
...water between Puerto Rico and the island of Vieques, looked for the pasture emergency field there. He had no trouble finding it. On the side of a hill his eye caught the red, white & blue of a huge stone U.S. flag alongside the globe & anchor of the Corps emblem. A legend ran across the hill in whitewashed rock: "U.S. Marine Corps-Semper Fidelis...
...mimosa-like flower of the acacia family, the wattle is worn (in season) by Australians as a national emblem...
...minutes. Rural gapers saw 400 tanks on the march, bounding along like agitated turtles with their three .30-calibre machine guns, a heavier (.50-calibre) machine gun or a cannon jutting from ports and turrets. On the shoulders of their dungareed, helmeted gargoyles was the Army's newest emblem: a black tank tread, superimposed on a tricolored triangle of yellow (for cavalry), scarlet (for field artillery) and blue (for infantry). For tanks are only the armored hearts of a modern, mechanized division; each has in addition a regiment of motorized (truck-borne) infantry, another of motor-drawn artillery...