Word: countersigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clarified by President Eliot in a letter of May 29, 1893. In effect, the president and fellows of Harvard University agreed that the institute founded by the society should have a name--"X College"; that they should be the visitors of X College, and that the president should countersign the diplomas of X College, which should also bear the Harvard seal, to testify to the equivalence of the degrees granted by the two institutions. Other rights were also granted by Harvard. Then in June, 1893, President Eliot suggested for the name of the proposed college that of Ann Radcliffe, Lady...
Other banks, of course, will follow. But none yet accommodates the needy borrower in every respect. If he has no willing friends to countersign his note to a "Morris Plan" (7%) or "National City-Marine Trust Plan" (6%) bank, he must pawn his household goods, automobile or other personal possessions with whatever moneylender he can wheedle, at the highest rate the lender dares command. Nor is it easy to get endorsers, since persons with sufficient money sense to become acceptable guarantors are not promiscuous with their signatures...
...made with his wife just before she died eight years ago. Both had been interested in spiritualism. While the woman lay ill they made a pact that if she died she would try to communicate with him through a medium. To defeat fakery, they fixed upon a countersign, wrote it down, sealed it in an envelope. It consisted of the date of Dr. Gilbert's birth, of his wife's, of their daughter...
...Gilbert died. The Doctor offered a reward of $500 to any medium who could give him a message from her-certified of course by the countersign. First 139 mediums tried for the money, but to none of them had the dead Mrs. Gilbert communicated the password. More letters began to come in. Dr. Gilbert asked the co-operation of Editor Wright. The strange abracadabras that the editor read aloud in the hushed room in the Woolworth Building were the attempts of 284 mediums to prove that they had talked to a dead woman...
...COUNTERSIGN -- "Down With Pussyfoot...