Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sheriff of Middlesex County, girt with his sword of office as representative of sovereignty, calls the meeting to order. The assembly is opened with prayer. The President takes his place in the ancient Tudor chair which has been the Harvard President's seat of office for over two centuries. On his right are the Fellows and Overseers of Harvard College (the two governing boards created by the Charter of 1650), and the distinguished guests, some of whom are to receive honorary degrees. On his left are members of the several faculties, in full academic dress, the gowns and hoods...
...Samurai sword, fancy...
...Samurai sword, plain...
...point a moral, I should like to say to all who are in doubt that reform commences in one's own back yard and perfection comes from within. . . . And to those who expect miracles out of the war, there is another old saying: those who live by the sword shall perish by the sword. Even my eight-year-old son knows that fighting settles nothing, but is sometimes necessary in order to preserve one's self-respect...
...Soldier Born. "Skinny" Wain wright had a soldier's heritage. Great-Grandfather Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Episcopal bishop of New York in 1852, fought by the Word, his descendants by the sword...