Word: shield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than the flowery official text later released in French to impress world opinion. According to this, His Majesty cried, "My people, your Emperor, who addresses you, will be in your midst, not hesitating to pour out his life's blood for the independence of Ethiopia. . . . God is our shield and our buckler against the modern weapons of our enemies of tomorrow. . . . Soldiers, when you have heard that in battle your loved and respected Emperor has fallen, do not weep or despair...
...carving shows the lion of Immanuel College holding John Harvard's shield, continental troops in front of Massachusetts Hall, and John Harvard seated in his chair with a suggestive canine appendage. There is also a representation of the first intercollegiate boat race, rowed by Harvard, Yale, and Trinity...
...Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings, Viscount Hastings, son & heir of the Earl of Huntington. A direct descendant of Robert Hastings, steward to William the Conqueror, with ancestral estates in Leicestershire, Lord Hastings finds Britain too expensive, makes his permanent home in the South Seas, at Faretaotootoa, Moorea Island. His family shield is an empty sleeve supported by two man-faced lions. Unlike Diego Rivera who paints meticulously with a camel's hair brush on wet plaster, Hastings uses a spray...
Pierre la Rose, one of the world's best-known and most picturesque authorities on horaldry, has re-designed the Harvard Seal, following the official blazon, but making the outlines clearer and narrowing the shield. An impression of this seal will be affixed to all Latin diplomas, but those printed in English will have the University arms emblazoned in crimson...
...this attack GE spokesmen retorted that Philco's criticisms were more applicable to Britain's discredited metal "catkin" than to GE's innovation. The catkin's steel jacket served "Is an electrode; in the new tube the jacket is simply a shield. Philco was still convinced that "Proven Worth" is preferable to "Risky Experiment." Neutral radiomen found something to say on both sides, felt that only time and the lordly verdict of the buying public would decide whether glass or metal would emerge...