Word: seales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cripps & Lyttelton. The Prime Minister cut his War Cabinet from nine to seven ministers. The appointment of Socialist Sir Stafford Cripps to sit among these seven as Lord Privy Seal was sensational, since he was also to replace the Prime Minister as the Government's representative in the House of Commons...
Once the Excellencies introduced the Countess to a deferential man who had "the face of a seal and breathed very loudly through his short nose." The old men were very cordial while the seal kissed the Countess' hand with "very moist lips." But as soon as he moved on, Bratianu-beard said: "Voila le gigolo le phis dangereux de Bucharest." All his friends in high Rumanian society knew, said the Old Excellencies, that "he lived on women and blackmail" and "worked for Moruzov's Secret Police." Nearly everybody in the Athene Palace worked for Moruzov, they said, from...
...held licenses and wish to regain them should find out from the CAA office at East Boston where to apply. Applicants for reinstatement must have a properly certified birth certificate stamped with a raised seal of town or state. In addition they must present two 2 1/2 by 2 1/2 (not including margins) identification photos, which show large head and shoulders, and says the Government, both ears...
...field hat worn by Prince Otto von Bismarck, a wool afghan, a Shriner's hat, silk scarves, gloves, ties, socks, a sweater, a towel bearing the Union Jack, a framed list of U.S. Presidents, a copy of George Washington's will, a painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles, a textbook on navigation, a lawbook, The Book of Mormon, a set of Indian arrowheads, a turkey's wishbone (the V-symbol), an autographed picture of Jack Dempsey and a carton of skin lotion, a couple of soap dishes, a portrait of Franklin...
...great advantage of brass casings is that, at detonation, they quickly heat up, expand, seal the gun breech; then they quickly cool, shrink, can easily be ejected. Steel has a slower heat conductivity, a lesser coefficient of expansion, which can probably be somewhat overcome by crafty alloying...