Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insurance and borrowing from friends, he scraped up enough to join a fellow clerk in buying out a carriage factory for $2,000. Through his prodigious energy and salesmanship ("he could coax a bird out of a tree") the company acquired 14 plants by 1904. Durant's "Blue Ribbon" carriages became the Fords of a horse-drawn world...
...Heps, blue-ribbon meet for all Ivy colleges, will be held this year in the Stadium on May 17. The Crimson will play host to Army, Navy, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Columbia. Army, with 56 points, was an easy winner last spring, with the Crimson in fifth place...
...their last day in Cape Town the King & Queen donned their best finery (an admiral's uniform with the blue ribbon of the Garter for him; a gown of pale crepe and Queen Mary's borrowed diamond tiara for her), to preside at the opening of South Africa's Parliament -the first British monarchs ever to do so. The King spoke for six minutes, first in English, then in Afrikaans. That night the family boarded the 14-car royal gold-and-cream train, to continue their conquests over 5,000 miles for the next eight weeks...
Pilgrim's Progress. In Boston, where breeding counts, Poultry Show judges handed the blue ribbon to Susie, a grey Pilgrim goose, whose ancestors came over in the Mayflower...
They had surrendered not only rank, but swank. Like all West Point fourth-classmen, they answered to titles like "Mister Dumbjohn" and endured upper-classmen's humor. But as soldiers, most wore their ribbons. They were the gaudiest plebes in the Academy's history. On his grey dress coat, Cadet Clark sported pilot's wings, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with 13 clusters, and an ETO ribbon with six stars...