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Word: escutcheons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year of victory. The way would be clear for Germany to strike another body blow at battered Russia, perhaps in the far north against supply lines from across the seas, perhaps at Moscow, where proud Fedor von Bock has a haunting defeat to sponge from his Prussian escutcheon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: 7 Leagues, 7 Leagues Onward | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...short stories Trend most nearly approaches the undergraduate literary norm. Bowden Broadwater's "Several Blots on the Family Escutcheon" will be familiar to all Advocate readers, and the criticisms for unconvincing artificiality of mood to which it is subject may also be leveled at "Doncha Wanna Dig, Chillun" by Dartmouth's Edward Rasmussen. John Barnes' "But the Bullets Were Real" is a more original and evocative attempt. As a study of a sensitive young couple faced with the draft the tale deals with an important youth problem, while its experiment in form, though not always properly controlled, fits...

Author: By T. S. K., | Title: ON THE SHELF | 2/27/1942 | See Source »

...Several Blots on the Family Escutcheon," a short story by Bowden Broadwater '42, staff-member of the Harvard Advocate, is to be printed in the February 4 edition of Trend, national intercollegiate magazine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Broadwater Has Short Story In Future Issue of "Trend" | 1/28/1942 | See Source »

...easier. His main efforts were concerned with bombarding the enemy wherever he dawdled within 30 miles of the Libyan coast, and with breaking his supply lines. Sir Alan's forces torpedoed a cruiser (the R.A.F. got another), a destroyer and two supply ships. Admiral Cunningham has on his escutcheon the fair marks of Taranto, Matapan and last year's Libyan show. He has kept Tobruk alive with a steady stream of supplies. His most famous signal at sea, which he flashed as he steamed toward Taranto: "I intend to behave offensively in the Ionian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF THE DESERT: Blenheim? Waterloo? | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Corporation created the annex across the Common. Like Frankenstein's, this hideous monster now threatens to turn and devour its master and creator. Tell the man whose house is on fire to be calm, but urge not temperance on me while this grief blot still remains on the Harvard escutcheon! I demand the immediate suppression of the R----e Table on the grounds of indecency. R. Llewelyn Brill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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