Word: seales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college objected to the song mainly because the lead sheet carried a reproduction of the seal of Harvard University," she wrote recently. "Therefore, they wrote a number of indignant letters to the publishers requesting that all existing copies of the song be called in and no new ones released until the insignia had been removed...
Good Hunting. The 1945 seal catch off Alaska's desolate Pribilof Islands was the largest (76,700 skins) since conservation of the decimated seal herd was started in 1911. An estimated 10,000 fur coats can be made from this year's $4 million catch...
...Congress. When bulky Foreign Secretary "Ernie" Bevin, absent for the first time in 30 years (because he was attending the Council of Foreign Ministers in London), sent immaculate, briefcased Ivone Kirkpatrick to "observe" for him, it was the first time the Foreign Office had ever set such an official seal on the T.U.C. And the 900 delegates (representing some 7,000,000 workers) packed into Blackpool's ornate Winter Gardens had their own prideful "first": never before had the workers of Britain so completely felt themselves the backbone of a British Government...
...official junket set an imposing Soviet seal on the Groza Government, just before the Council of Foreign Ministers was due to weigh its records in London (see INTERNATIONAL). But Rumania, like Bulgaria (see below), needed the imprimatur of the U.S. and Britain before it could get the peace treaty it sought. Not one but all of the Big Three were now acting tough. If Premier Groza had found light in the east, King Michael might also find it in the west...
...Francisco last week Gump's, the art dealers who sold the seal to Seattle's Museum in 1935, had forgotten where they acquired it. But if it is truly the lost seal (as Chinese Consul Kiang Yi-seng and the Museum's Director, Dr. Richard E. Fuller, believe it to be because of the references to Hsien Feng deciphered from its characters), chances are that it came to the U.S. some time after the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. During that chaotic period hoodlums and allied soldiers had ample opportunity to plunder the fabulous riches...