Word: shield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fraternity, with the aid of sportswriters and sportcasters. Gamma Sigma has no college chapters, no fraternity house, no key. Its 900-odd members are divided into two chapters: Alpha (for All-Americans) and Rho (for also-rans). To become an Alpha and wear the All-America insignia (a shield with two crossed megaphones) is as great a distinction among cheerleaders as getting a Phi Beta Kappa key is to a bookworm...
During the half intermission, the band will give a rendition of a Yale medley, arranged by Leroy Anderson '29. For its last number, it has decided to form a shield with VERITAS in the center and march off the field...
Highlight of the Band's formations was a shield enclosing a "D", followed by letters of "Harvard" formed in rapid succession...
...scientific jack-in-the-box pops up with an alleged death ray. Nearest approach to a real death ray is the 19-million-volt stream of subatomic particles produced at the University of California by Ernest Orlando Lawrence's giant new cyclotron. This 225-ton machine, whose operators shield themselves by water-tank barricades, can kill white mice and destroy cancer cells at popgun range. Installed in a front-line trench it would have less effect on an enemy soldier at 50 feet than one well-aimed rifle bullet...
...five kings named Sheshonk who ruled ancient Egypt during the 22nd Dynasty (TIME, April 3). It was suspected that this might be Sheshonk I, the conqueror who, according to the Old Testament, "came up against Jerusalem" and went away with all of Solomon's gold shields. Last week the mummy was identified by a "cartouche" (personal inscription) found on a breast ornament. It was indeed the body of shield-swiping Sheshonk...