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...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...
...matter how minute. For those who could not plunk down $100, a deferred-payment plan was provided: $10 down, installments of 5?. Incidental "love offerings" of $5 to $6 were gratefully received. Boys & girls belonged to "Cosmic Network, Inc.," contributed 1? stamps. Into "Secret Givers, Inc." (for men only; emblem: a stork carrying a baby) members paid from 50? to $1 a month...
...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...
...presented it to the University during the Tercentenary Celebration. The presentation was made on behalf of the Harvard alumni in China. The dragon-headed tortoise which supports the vertical stone occupies a very important but seemingly vague place in Chinese mythology. Sometimes it has been used as a cosmic emblem and sometimes as a symbol of uncleanliness, lack of chastity. Standing, as it does, between Boylston and Widener, it can hardly symbolize the latter. The inscription on the stone tablet is an expression of the donor's high regard for Harvard; it praises education, peace, and good will...