Word: colophon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement to keep the best men and women at home, and such a movement has also been begun in the United States. Such new racial consciousness is a hopeful sign, and with it before our eyes we need not despair." By such conclusion, Dr. Osborn puts a controversial colophon to his otherwise straightforward exposition of man's rise to Parnassus. Men are sure to debate his point acrimoniously...
...volume of the Catholicon, printed at Mainz in 1640, and generally thought to be the work of Gutenberg. This book, a very fine copy of the fourth book ever printed with a date, is part of the fifteen the century collection of J. M. Hunnewell '01. The colophon, or final paragraph of the book, usually containing the place and date of publication, printer's name and so forth, gives a history of the origin of printing. It is this colophon which points to Gutenberg as the printer. The book came from a press believed to have been started by Gutenberg...
...Colophon, Asia Minor, excavations which were suspended owing to political conditions in 1922 were resumed in August, and it is hoped that results of real value will develop...
...frock coats gathered to unveil a tablet in memory of the man who used to live in the vanished brownstone edifice - Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, "the famous infidel." Onetime Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, Actress Julia Marlowe, Poet Edgar Lee Masters, made speeches, and those who read the proud colophon upon the tablet and listened to the eloquence of Col. Ingersoll's admirers, reflected how, 40 years ago, the State of Delaware had offered him an entertainment on its whipping block, and how the bitter attacks of his many enemies filled the newspapers...
...words annoy me greatly in your issue of Sept. 7, Page 10, centre column: "Incarnadined" is too long and fancy a word for such a plain paragraph. On the same page "grooved only with the austere colophon." You are reading the dictionary too much. Page 30 - last two lines : "shoveled into the ground at Potter's field." Very inaccurate ; a corpse is too big to shovel handily. WM. E. CLARK...