Word: emblem
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Dunster: Dunster House was named in honor of Reverend Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard College. It is commonly believed that President Dunster’s family coat of arms serves as the emblem of Dunster House. In actuality, when the House Shield was being designed, the designer searched for the Dunster family arms in England, and unintentionally based the shield design on the wrong Dunster family seal...
...girth of two, we can only imagine what the Puritanical inhabitants of Cambridge were practicing in this space. Looming above the tub, is a bizarre 25 spout water dispersal array which appears to have served as the shower head. Anachronistically placed among this grandeur is a garish post-modern emblem of mass production—a Scott’s hand towel dispenser. This haphazard addition has clearly been an unthoughtful juxtaposition to this otherwise palatial facility...
...Africans love photography. It is the very emblem of the self. People want to preserve themselves, their faces...” Sidibé said in the Fogg’s exhibition notes. “The camera functions like a mirror in a way; it proves ones existence, or at least a part of one’s existence, and leaves you with a permanent taste...
...Connor's media wake even outstripped that for Jack Lemmon, who died less than a week later, though TV actors usually land far lower on St. Peter's It List. Lemmon was praised as a master actor; but O'Connor was hailed as a national emblem, as history...
...rambling dissertation, Zhuan Falun, has only added to accusations that Falun Gong is a cult. Li writes he can personally heal disease and that his followers can stop speeding cars using the powers of his teachings. He writes that the Falun Gong emblem exists in the bellies of practitioners, who can see through the celestial eyes in their foreheads. Li believes "humankind is degenerating and demons are everywhere"?extraterrestrials are everywhere, too?and that Africa boasts a 2-billion-year-old nuclear reactor. He also says...