Word: seals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign nations have taken no little interest in the decision of the Supreme Court which forbids their vessels to carry liquor as part of their ship stores, or even under seal, when in United States waters. There was a storm of protest in the English and French press...
...less necessary to examine his literary milieu, the books which have aroused his imagination and formed his taste. From this point of view, the Classics of Greece and Rome have been contemporary with every age. Even in the full flush of Romanticism, Shelley turns to Greece whose seal is set "on all the race of man inherits", and Words-worth can sigh with some wistfulness for a breath of Horatian freedom...
...Albans, was O. C., if we may borrow from military sources, and his strong personality and characteristically breezy manner went far to appeal to the undergraduates. The attendances, we are told, were good; and at the close of the Mission the Archbishop of Canterbury came up to add his seal to the proceedings...
...purpose of the Academy to seal up these records beyond access, but to keep them where they may become the "most valuable source of information of the personal and biographic and critical sides of American esthetic history in years to come". The members propose to pick out that which is the best of this day and age, and to put it where it may become a stimulus to the genius of the future generations which are to carry on the admirable work begun by the Academy of the present. As such it should be a source of inspiration to every...
...wisp of Thomas Carlyle's hair, a volume of original letters to Professor Norton from Longfellow, Lowell, and others, an original manuscript of John Leverett, President of the College from 1708 to 1724, and a contract of a grant of land to Sir Joseph Eyles bearing the Great Seal of Great Britain...