Word: sealing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other Mix thoroughly. Stir in liberal portions of athletics and, if possible, a select clan, or two to give the right tone Add an occasional pinch of sensuality, and soak for four years in alcohol. If the resulting mixture has the right consistency, stamp with an official seal, wrap in parchment, and lay on a shelf. These ingredients will produce an education of approved brand. It will pass current at face value ever after and will admit the possessor to the best of fellowship. Caution: Preserve the parchment...
From Russia, came reports: 1) Of an unknown seal of King Artaxerxes (I or III) of Persia, rummaged out of a museum storeroom, together with numerous coins of the Golden Horde (Tartars) who set up a dynasty in Russia in the 13th Century; 2) on the slopes of Mount Ararat (Erivan, Armenia, the head of a life-size statue of an early Armenian King, wearing what seemed to be Christian earrings; 3) of Neanderthal skeletons (fourth human era), dug also in Erivan...
Finally, the Legislature took the responsibility of decision. The official flag: base, solid blue; across the top, "Kansas"; in the center, the state seal enfolded by the petals of a sunflower...
...Seal) Katherine Abrams...
...estate before creditors can touch it; a law making it impossible to send a child under 16 to jail or to charge him with crime; a law of "contributory delinquency" penalizing parents. Playgrounds, public baths, night-schools, summer camps, day- nurseries?these, too, bear the Lindsey seal. "He is the Pinchot-Burbank of human resources." But the revived enthusiasm is a mere whisper in comparison with the plaudits of 10 and 15 years ago. Reform is apparently obsolete. Before the War, Ben Lindsey's story was shouted from front page to front page. This last year, Bernarr Macfadden's Physical...