Word: unicorn
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...Moseley's third line, with Bill Ayres and George Gebelein at wings, had an active and effective evening which saw Ayres score twice. Freshman mentor Stan Priddy teamed with Greeley Summers to form a rugged Unicorn defense. With Goodie Harding making his usual incredible stops, the B.A.A. goal was undented for 27 minutes. Hockey Summaries HARVARD (6) B.A.A. (7) Crocker rw Harding, W. Key c Beebe Feloney lw Loring Preston rd Summers Greeley, R ld Priddy Lavalle g Harding...
...lion and unicorn of England which Revolutionary mobs had neglected to pull down in the 1770s still stood atop the old State House...
...original lion and unicorn were pulled down and burned on July 18, 1776 on the occasion of the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Boston. Those which TIME's reporter observed, and falsely assumed to be the originals, were, in reality, the second set of replacements put there by the more sentimental restorers of a later generation...
...Reader Gifford is right as a Ribstone pippin on the fact, may be a little off on the timing. Another story: lion & unicorn were torn down by Colonial soldiers after the British evacuated Boston March 17, 1776. To TIME's reporter, a backward look for discounting the ardor of his Revolutionary forbears...
...Boston. Despite the Irish, the Italians, the automobile and the social "philosophy" of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Boston was still Boston. Its church steeples still stood unchallenged by tall buildings. Beacon Hill's decorous cascade of red brick houses still defied time and modern architects. The lion and unicorn of England, which revolutionary mobs had neglected to pull down in the 1770s, still stood atop the old State House...