Word: shield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choice of three books as a background was not an inspiration, however, but a last resort. john Harvard's family had no coat of arms, so it was impossible to follow the Oxford custom of adopting a benefactor's shield. Instead, the Overseers patterned the design after those of the colleges of Trinity and the Sorbonne, which both used books as a part of their arms...
...completed shield, never adopted officially in those early days, was forgotten for nearly two hundred years. Meanwhile, Christo et Ecclenas, another motto suggested in the seventeenth century, gained a wide following...
...rule is absurdly unjust. Few married men anywhere are without some kind of health and hospitalization insurance today. There is only one low family rate regardless of the size of the family. Even the employees of Harvard, among them a crowd of teaching Fellows, are offered Blue Shield and Blue Cross group rates. For the University to demand that these graduate students be doubly protected and twice taxed cannot be justified n terms of the students' own interests; they still have to keep their wives and children covered by family health insurance, and the Hygiene Department, understandably, makes no provision...
...contaminated. The reactor could not be rebuilt until the tank had been properly taken care cf. With an announcer barking orders over a public-address system, men in gas masks and protective clothing started the ticklish operation of jockeying the dangerous tank out of the reactor's concrete shield. The crane that lifted it had a shielded cab to protect its operator. In 30 minutes the tank was lowered into its canvas shroud, to be towed to a deserted spot and covered with sand. Not until last week, with the tank safely in its grave, did the scientists reveal...
Some 40 college heads joined in a statement issued March 24, which asserted that "freedom of thought and speech is vital to the maintenance of the American system..."but which carefully noted that "'academic freedom' is not a shield for those who break...