Word: sealed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important part of the inauguration ceremony as presented under the regimes of the colonial presidents and President Conant and was rebound last year in heavy morocco leather by the library bindery which is hidden away in the same part of the building. This book has the drawing for the seal which we know today, but the word "Veritas" did not appear on the metal seal until 1885 because the sealcutters' art was before then not sufficiently developed to cut the words over the books...
...Finally there was a good chance for Iowa farmers to cash in on last year's corn crop. Under seal on Iowa farms are 100,000,000 bu. against which AAA made loans at 45¢ a bu. Farmers may regain title to this corn by paying off the loans. With corn selling currently in Iowa at 65¢, they can realize a 20¢ per bu. profit, or a total...
...jump the hurdle of stiff examinations in six subjects. A decade ago all bars were dropped for appointees with high or preparatory school diplomas. Few years later two bars were put back: examinations in English and mathematics. Last week Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson set his seal on a new change. Beginning next autumn, appointees who have satisfactorily completed one year of study in an approved college may enter the academy without examination...
...Roared approval as Lord Privy Seal Mr. Stanley Baldwin took over as Acting Premier with a suave but unmistakable Tory intimation that, with Pacifist MacDonald out of the way, His Majesty's Government will at once proceed to build nearly 1,000 additional fighting planes...
Rockwell Kent sailed for Unamak, Greenland, where he will paint, write, live mostly on shark, seal & whale, initiate his 13-year-old son Gordon into Eskimo life. Said Artist Kent: "A very fine people, the Greenlanders. All marvelous physical specimens. . . . Their personal lives are free and unrestrained. . . . Their social life is a riot. If it weren't for the necessities of getting a living, they'd dance all the time, all night and every night...