Word: guard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year period, going as silently as they came, those vague and shadowy Dickensian figures who receive their degrees a half a year before or a half year later than their fellows. Celebrated by no flourish of a sheriff's stick or the beating hoofs of the Governor's guard, still this bestowal of diplomas means much to the ideal who are willing to date obscurity to attain it: it is only just to grace their departure with a single token of remembrance. Akin as they are to the useless unfortunates who are designated with a cabalistic ocC., the time...
State Senators persuaded Governor Johnston to remove the guard from their chamber. He did so without recognizing the Senators' authority to set themselves up as a court of impeachment. To establish their authority the Senators asked various judges to preside over them. The judges refused but the Senators voted to try Governor Johnston anyway...
...Hubbard, American scientist, author, and a former guard on the Harvard football team, is conducting an expedition to the bush of northern Rhodesia to study the psychology of wild animals found there. He will try to establish a scientific research station there, and is planning to take cinematography pictures and to make gramophone records of the wild animals there...
...substitute center and this year held the pivot position regularly throughout the season. John Newton Barbee, Jr., of Chicago, III., the third Marshal, entered the University from the Carl Schurz High School in Chicago. For two years Barbee has been pitcher in the baseball lineup and center or guard in the basketball team, of which he is captain this year. He held the presidency of his class last year...
Action: the King-Emperor approached a huge power press and thrust into it, with well simulated carelessness, not only an object to be pressed but also his right hand. As the huge plunger crashed down, perturbed eyewitnesses could barely follow the lightning movement of a rubber guard which brusquely pushed the royal hand & forearm to a safe distance...