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Word: insignia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that a German 'chutist had actually landed in Eire. Police arrested two suspects, found parachute, cap and equipment, but no 'chutist. Raiding the house of a Dubliner named Stephen Carroll Held, they next found not only an opened German parachute, German Air Force cap and German uniform insignia, but also maps of Dublin bridges, harbors and airdrome, a box containing $20,000 in U. S. money. The parachute, Held explained, had been left by a German named Heinrich Brandy, who had stayed at his house after arriving from the sky. The second suspect, Mrs. Iseult Stuart, daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Invasion: Preview and Prevention | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Alumni here for the first time were, according to whimsical observer Dr. Foss, "Particularly impressed with the omnipresent Harvard Club insignia. Even the water faucets in the men's room have H. C. on them." About one per-cent, the "hinterlanders", he further noted, were straw hats, oblivious of the fact that the official date for them around here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horseplay Reigns As Foss Aids Alumni Who Flock To Harvard Club of New York Party | 5/18/1940 | See Source »

...passing the recommendation on to the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports for final approval, the undergraduate body made it clear that the old method of awarding major insignia to all those who score points in the Eli meet would still be in effect. The new recommendation would act merely as an addition to the old system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHANGE SOUGHT IN SWIMMING LETTERS | 4/25/1940 | See Source »

...Harvard Athletic Association has announced the award of athletic insignia to 168 winter sports athletes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Association Names 168 Winners of Winter Sports Letters | 4/9/1940 | See Source »

...close of the current season. Coach Harold Ulen's team went through its schedule suffering only two defeats while winning nine encounters. Though the team was one of the nation's top-ranking swimming aggregations, only six major awards were meted out. Seven more athletes would receive major insignia under the new plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETIC COUNCIL WILL DELIBERATE LETTER QUESTION | 3/28/1940 | See Source »

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