Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thus, despite the general conviction that there has been statutory over-production, despite denunciation of over legislation on every hand, the making of laws goes on merrily with no sign of diminution. Nor is it hard to see why. We have set up an elaborate law making machine. We have provided for the study of legislative drafting and for the machines of law making. But for the basis upon which to make laws, for the materials out of which they are to be made, for the defining of the provinces of legislative law making, of judicial finding...
...took ample revenge on M.I.T. for its defeat the week before. The Cornell crew, the surprise of Saturday's regatta, did a good job and forced the Crimson boat to the finish. Harvard as usual rowed a long slow stroke, and locked like a four-mile crew, an encouraging sign with only the Yale race ahead...
...figure were quite human, a man of middle size with a stooping back and a long face, a prominent nose and with brows which grew together so that those who saw him would get frightened, with very little hair and having in the middle of his forehead a sign, according to the habit of the Nazarenes. His looks were quite simple, only his pose was more than human because he performed wonders through some invisible power...
...paintings are not uncommon, and from them alone has been learned much of what we know about the ancients. The red hand, a very common symbol, has been something of a puzzle. The suggestion has been made that it signifies strength, power, and mastery, and that it is the sign of some secret brotherhood...
There is reason to believe that some of the impressions of this sign were put in Maya buildings after the conquest: in short that here is a tangible piece of the old ritual remembered by degenerate descendants of great ancestors. On Cozumel Island our expedition found examples of the red hand so conventionalized by the artist that the five fingers looked like five petals of a flower or the five flames of a lamp...