Word: escutcheons
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...Southern states on the proper conduct of racial relations. Usually this advice contains no indication that the donor appreciates the institutional and historical framework within which change must be effected; and all too often it reeks self-righteousness which is by no means justified. To show that the Northern escutcheon is not without blot, one need search no further than Cambridge, itself, seat of culture and learning, to find an instance of social discrimination which occurred only last Spring...
Baseball, after passing through its only great scandal in 1919, appointed the late Kennesaw Mountain Landis as its all-powerful "czar," and for two decades his iron hand kept baseball's escutcheon spotless. Now would seem an appropriate time for all professional sports to choose together a joint ruling committee with similar vast regulatory powers, and thus aid in keeping the final outcome of all sporting events in doubt for all the spectators...
Eliot House' nautical proboseidean have captured the inter-House basketball laurels for the 1943 season. The finished up the second round of the competition with their escutcheon still unblemished thus doing away with any need for playoff...
...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...
...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...