Word: seals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sculpture which is at present on the west pediment represents the seal of the Holden family, surrounded by the figures of cherubs, and angels. It is probably the oldest bit of wood carving existing in the University...
...Claremont, Calif., hard by Los Angeles, another Oxford rises. Oxford, at least, is the handiest comparison, for Oxford is a group of autonomous colleges, individually staffed, housed and administered, under a university seal that indicates their federation into a community of learning in which only major facilities, basic policies and an enveloping tradition are held in common...
...upon a most elegant double-page spread in the New York Times last week, advertising the latest, the very last thing in Florida realty- "the Floranada Club." An organization entitled the American-British Improvement Corporation, with a coat of arms showing eagle and lion rampant beside the sovereign seal of Florida, proclaimed "a Biarritz in the building . . . small, smart, exquisite . . . whose founders read like a page from the social register." A tract of 3,600 acres midway between Palm Beach and Miami was in hand. There was ocean frontage with the Gulf Stream only 3 miles offshore. There were...
...casts include many of the finest Babylonian, Assyrian, and Hittite bas-reliefs and other monuments in the museums of London, Paris, Berlin, and Constantinople; likewise books, seals, seal impressions, weights, statuettes, etc., in the same museums...
Herodotus states that every Babylonian gentleman carried a seal. European museums have thousands of these objects, partly cylindrical, partly avoid, often inscribed with the owner's name, and provided with engravings in great variety of form. The Semitic Museum has several hundred, and not a few of our clay books are stamped with seal impressions, the original of which have never-yet been found. Only real masters of intaglio can have produced seals of such high degree of excellence...