Word: emblems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lila also suggested the four green, winged horses which adorn the Digest building's 32-ft. white cupola and have since become the Digest emblem. "It was a happy thought," says Lila, "because according to the myth, when Pegasus stamps his little feet, writers get their inspiration...
...thousands of Chinese drove through their positions, killing 33, wounding 34, and capturing 407, including the commanding officer, Lieut. Colonel James P. Carne. On board the Empire Fowey, there were only 15 survivors of that battle. By special permission of the King, the Gloucesters wore the blue and gold emblem of the U.S. Distinguished Unit Citation, but few of them had decorations for individual exploits. Explained a battalion officer: "I'd start to write a man up for the Military Cross and then I'd get to thinking about what the chaps did at the Imjin. It just...
...Emblem. Not until the spring of 1949 did the dove achieve bodily form. As the World Peace Congress met in Paris, Communist Poet Louis Aragon went to Pablo Picasso, who likes to say, "I came to the Party as to a fountain." Aragon wanted an emblem, and his eye fell on a lithograph of a dove on the wall. "Ha," said Aragon. The World Peace Congress, after hearing Baritone Paul Robeson assail "the slanders of the American mercenary press," happily adopted Picasso's dove and happily applauded Fadeyev's attack on the makers of the North Atlantic Pact...
...example, could one find a conveyance with the elaborate coach-work of a pre-World War I Rolls Royee? Perched high on the radiator is a charming piece of statnary, a slender, lightly dressed young female--Psyche (famed of White Rock labels, myth, and poetry), the Rolls mascot emblem...
...Medford was elected captain of the varsity nine for the 1952 season. Third baseman Kevin Patrick Reilly of West Roxbury and Adams House received the Wingate Trophy as the team's most valuable player, while center fielder Edward Nixon Foynes of Quincy and Dudley Hall won the Wendell Bat, emblem of Harvard batting supremacy...