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...Freshman inter-dormitory football series will begin on October 6, and games will be played on October 8 and 10. The winning team will score five points for its dormitory towards the shield that is being competed for by the Freshman Halls each year. The second team in the series will receive three points, the third two and the fourth one. Dean Chauncy is in charge of these teams and is assisted by Coaches Shaw and Maurice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERDORMITORY GRIDIRON LEAGUE GETS UNDER WAY | 10/2/1930 | See Source »

...Manlius, previously called St. John's School, Manlius, N. Y.]. "Bill" as he was to us, or "The General" was a man's man, and he surely lived to fulfill the phrase "Manners Maketh Man" and the three virtues, Honor, Love and Duty with which our school shield is emblazoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 22, 1930 | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

Because many a citizen has been stopped on the highroad by U. S. Prohibition agents whose say-so was their only identification, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock last week announced that all automobiles carrying such agents will be marked with a distinctive shield on the right front door. The shield will read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Signs for Agents | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...scene changed abruptly. Seething with passion the Knight of the Lake invaded the bed of Queen Guinevere. Followed a pallid flashback to Elaine floating on her barge, dead for love. The mood became reminiscent: the love-blighted lily of Astolat guarding the wayward knight's shield in a tower, pining away. The barge motif was again heard. Betrayed, undone, Queen & lover fled Camelot, Guinevere to Amesbury nunnery and the veil, Launcelot to his castle. Final chapter of the symphony was Launcelot, ruled by grief and pain, moving gloomily among the lily pads of his homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Launcelot | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...other Sikhs had tried to shield him, but now, shouting their defiance and their determination to die rather than move, they wiped away the blood streaming from his mouth. Hysterical Hindus rushed to him bearing cakes of ice to rub the contusions over his brown eyes. The Sikh gave me a bloody smile-and stood up for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: No Police Were Touched | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

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