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Word: seales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government thought this over. Finally it gave its answer through prim, schoolmasterish Lord Privy Seal Clement R. Attlee. Rasped the Lord Privy Seal like a tired tutor: "Nine p.m., British time, is not 9 p.m. throughout the Empire. It is inappropriate to broadcast nine strokes of Big Ben when it is 6 a.m. in Australia and the middle of the night in India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rejected Thought | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

P.B.H. sent the R.A.F. unit samples of stickers with the College seal and pennants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOUVENIRS SENT RAF UNIT NAMED AFTER UNIVERSITY | 2/28/1941 | See Source »

Nowhere is it affirmed that Moses maintained that Yahweh alone existed." Professor Shalom Spiegel of Manhattan's Jewish Institute of Religion reported the discovery of a seal inscribed to Ge-daliah, the puppet Hebrew regent whom Nebuchadnezzar set up after he conquered Jerusalem in 589 B.C. to rule over the few Judeans he did not take back to Babylon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bib Lit | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...This seal makes it seem that Gedaliah's appointment had the support of the prophet Jeremiah. Dr. Spiegel suggested that Jeremiah may even have played Laval to Gedaliah's Petain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bib Lit | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...culturally imperative to toast the bride, christen the ship, seal the bargain, speed the friend, salute the New Year, celebrate good fortune, wake the dead, and even symbolize and ingest the blood of the Savior through the medium of alcohol. . . . With so many various forms of culturally approved drinking, the amazing result is that we have so few persons emotionally dependent upon alcohol in some form. The teetotaler is, after all, equally as abnormal from the cultural standpoint as is the habitual drinker. . . . There is definite cultural relativity, and no universally valid generalization can be made as to what constitutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drunks and Doctors | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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