Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States Government as an art of international importance. Mr. Glover, the Third Assistant Postmaster General, is even now en route to England with an official exhibit of the various issues which this country has printed. He will enter this display, arranged in the form of a gigantic shield, in the International Stamp Exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Hall, London; and it is expected that the American shield will surpass the exhibit of any other nation in beauty and value. President Harding himself has described it as "an exhibit worthy of so great a country...
Saturday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock the thirty-eighth annual H. A. A. interscholastic track meet will be held in the Stadium. Twenty schools, with more than 250 competitors, are entered in the various events. The Athletic Association will entertain the visitors at luncheon and dinner, the shield and cup being presented to the victorious team at the latter time. The shield becomes the permanent possession of the winning team, but the cup, which was donated by the University undergraduates in 1910, is held for one year by the winning school, and is then put up again for competition...
Hugo Stinnes would probably agree with very little of this. He would almost certainly deny that his patriotism is only a shield to his own ambitions. He might be right. Coke is an agent in producing many beautiful things, and Stinnes may yet prove his policy noble, and for the benefit of the German people and the Fatherland...
...they have been successful in a surprising degree. During the three years in which the contests have been carried on the smallest dormitory, Standish, has won four times, Smith three times, Gore twice. The name of the winning dormitory of the Fall contest will be inscribed on the shield which is located in each of the three Common Rooms...
...sake". It has been ridiculed as producing only mediocre, half-hearted athletics and the various "moral victory" explanations of defeat. But whatever its faults, real or imagined, it does point out by contrast some of the defeats in our American adaptation of the Spartan creed: "Gome back with your shield...