Word: signeteer
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...Fiske, 3d, Scholarship, providing a year's study at Trinity Col-has been awarded to John Cotton Wal-Cott '34, of Cambridge, Mass. He prepared at St. Paul's School. He will graduate magna cum laude in English. He was literary editor of the Advocate, Class Odist, president of Signet Society, and held a Harvard College Scholarship...
...Junior year he broadened out, joined Signet, helped found Harvard's chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma chemical fraternity. Delta Upsilon made him its president. In 1913, aged 20 and a year ahead of his class, he was graduated magna cum lande with a brilliant record in chemistry...
...into the play-offs every season, and, since last Christmas, had hoisted it from bottom to top of the National Hockey League's American division. At the end of the first period of last week's game, with the score 1-to-1, ceremonies took place. Diamond signet rings were presented to the famed forwards-Cook-Boucher-&-Cook; to Johnson, defense man who has raised a five-year-old son since that first game in the Garden; to silver-haired Manager Lester Patrick and to weather-beaten little Trainer Harry Westerby. When Murray Murdoch's turn came...
...turned up 15,000 coins of ancient Greece and the nations who traded with her. Another prize was a broad-browed, calm-eyed marble bust of Augustus, first Roman Emperor, intact except for the tip of the nose. Still another was a Mycenaean sepulchre containing a "very unusual" gold signet ring and three skeletons. On the site of old Corinth, Princeton's Professor Richard Stillwell was excited when he uncovered a mosaic floor 31 by 24 ft., laid by Romans of the empire period. Its central panel depicted a palm-bearing athlete and a seated figure of Eutychia...
...down at the head of the long mahogany table, flicked a red ribbon from a rolled document and began to read the bill for the manufacture and sale of 3.2% beer. A forest of tripoded newsreel cameras and lights hemmed him in against a heavy window drapery. His gold signet ring glinted in the artificial glare as he fingered the crisp white pages before him. At a photographer's command he picked up a pen and wrote Frank. With another he added I'm D. A third pen got as far as Roos. A fourth finished...