Word: sealed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris papers announced officially the natural death of the Minister of Interior by heart failure. In the late afternoon Lille buzzed with rumors of suicide. These became official at 11:30 p. m. and M. Salengro was an nounced to have placed wet cloths around his kitchen windows to seal them, turned on the gas stove, died asphyxiated...
...Welcome A. F. of L." said the posters which were ordered for display in Tampa this week, and underneath they were supposed to bear the seal of the Federation, two clasped hands. But when the posters were distributed a square of white paper was pasted over the seal. Those who peered closely at the paper could discern through it the outlines of some jokester's prank. The posters had been printed not with two clasped hands but with two clenched fists shaking at each other...
...power under Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 18, passed by the 69th Congress in 1926, inviting the people of the U. S. to observe Nov. 11 as Armistice Day "with appropriate ceremonies in schools and churches or other suitable places" and thereto he set his hand and caused the great seal of the U. S. to be affixed...
Only the high regard which I have for the Veritas emblazoned on the Harvard seal-a word which seems to have escaped Mr. Tunis's attention, or possibly exceeded his ability in translation-forces me to step into the white light of publicity, and confess that I am the wreck that penned those pitiful words that headline your column on Education (TIME, Sept. 14), "After 25 years I am an utter failure, morally, mentally, and financially...
...Boston lawyer named Henry Munroe Rogers (Class of 1862), blared his welcome to the alumni through two giant loudspeakers. He then proceeded to read several letters written by far-sighted alumni in 1836 to be read at the 1936 Tercentenary. President Quincy, it turned out, had neglected to seal them up before 1843. An unnamed Philadelphia graduate had been willing to wait a century for the denouement of a crabbed jest when he wrote: ''I owe nothing to the president, professors and tutors of Harvard College in office from 1810 to 1814." Of larger interest was a note...