Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shown that this is not indispensable if the ballyhoo is sufficiently vigorous. Many a spectator at a football game does not know what it is all about. He sees only the struggling figures, and if he has good luck may each sight of some warrior carried out on his shield--sometimes wounded, perhaps slain--to make a Roman holiday...
Buckminster Fuller talks no riddles when he says his dymaxion house "is not property to be owned, but a mechanical arrangement to be used." The new model has a fixed circular core, cased in a streamlined, pearshaped shield which swings with the wind, like a feed-tray for birds. The circular core, hung on a duraluminum mast planted on, not in, the ground, is lashed together by guy-wires on a system of triangular tensions, like an airplane. A square house piles up air pressure on the windward side, creates a vacuum on the leeward side, thus sucking the heat...
...even Chicago; nothing which ridicules or criticises the administration, the curricula, the town of Evanston, its residents or their conduct will be tolerated. This code has been drafted by the board of student publications, and presented for ratification by the faculty supervisors. With the hope that they will shield the boys from the contamination which the name of Mrs. Sanger imparts...
...ring canvas was spattered with blood. Reporters at the ringside held up newspapers to shield themselves. The referee had to wipe blood from his hands between rounds. But still the awkward, stooping little fighter advanced, his gloves now at his head for relief from the hammering it was getting, and now in furious, smashing action against the ribs and head of his opponent. The little fighter's flat nose, freshly broken, bubbled redly as he snorted for breath. His head rocked as punch after punch landed on it. But on & on he went, crowding, slamming, tearing in like...
...policy, Dartmouth has added still more weight to Dr. Flexner's searching criticism of American colleges. The prerequisite of coaching ability in prospective instructors has unfortunately been adopted by many schools and colleges. But that fact will hardly excuse Dartmouth, professedly a cultural institution, for hiding behind the shield of "de-emphasis" in order to attract new students by the promise of a profitable vocational training. Men intending to enter other vocations have felt the same needs, but it is still the universally accepted duty of the truly cultural college not to train a man technically for some specific occupation...