Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order to erase any ambiguity arising from your account of the playing of Harvard's Negro tackle, Chester Pierce, in the University of Virginia's Scott Stadium [TIME, Oct. 20], I should like to add that the numerous Confederate flags were not displayed to commemorate this precedent-shattering event. It is virtually standard operating procedure to unfold the flag of the gallant old Confederacy whenever this university plays a "Yankee" eleven here or in the North-so was it last year with Princeton and so will it be with Pennsylvania in Franklin Field this year...
...Machete's editors entered the Communist Party. "I was identified as the spokesman," says Siqueiros with a hard grin. "Let Orozco draw a strong cartoon; Siqueiros was arrested. Let Rivera wave a red flag in the streets; Siqueiros was arrested...
...somewhere in the football leagues A little trophy stands, Surrounded by a cheering throng And gaily-playing bands. But up at quaint old Cambridge Town The flag is at half-mast, For there is no gun at Harvard; Our cannon's back at last...
...world, which has so far failed to organize itself as one world, at least and at last got a symbol of unity: a worldwide flag. At Lake Success, the U.N. Assembly's Legal Committee took five minutes to approve a secretariat design: a white polar projection map of the earth's seas and continents on a smoke-blue background. As with the U.N. emblem adopted last year, the earth was shown girdled with olive branches. For the present, nobody would be required to pledge allegiance to the flag. But it would be handy for identifying U.N. outposts...
...plodded along, and yesterday the world began beating its intrepid way to our door. Someone telephoned from Virginia. "Who said anything about buying football players. . . .?" Someone wrote airmail from Virginia. "A Confederate Flag was stolen . . . We have the honor system down here. We don't lock our doors . . . It was a large Confederate Flag . . ." People came calling. "What happened...