Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blazing Fasces. As night fell, the Tiber was illuminated by searchlights and flares. High upon the Arch of Titus blazed an electric sign displaying the fasces, symbol of Fascismo. Sage U. S. parents showed their inquisitive offspring what the fasces are by displaying the "tails" side of a new U. S. dime...
...Mukden, the capital of Manchuria, a little man tugged delightedly at his large ears-a sign that he was greatly pleased, puzzled or vexed. He was the great Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, the friend of Japan, the implacable foe of Soviet Russia, overlord by right of might throughout all Manchuria. He was pleased because his son, General Chang Hsueh-liang, had just entered Peking at the head of a victorious army...
...fact that they had already been broken into by robbers at a much earlier date. Human remains were also not to be discovered, although as many as 17 queues of human hair wrapped up in silk were found hanging in a single tomb probably as a sign of mourning...
...present system of reservations in advance, which enables members of the University go sign for tickets at the Hemenway Gymnasium between 8.30 and 12.30 o'clock in the morning, will be continued and reservation, ticket issued at the time of signing up. A ticket for a court thus reserved must be obtained at the office on the field not later than five minutes after the beginning of the hour for which a court is reserved...
...Vare gang of Philadelphia. . . . "The Vare penmen not only forged names but invented persons. Two Vare penmen in the Sixth Division of the 32nd ward turned out a full sheet of forgeries. One wrote 29 signatures and the other 15 all copied from the street list. But instead of signing the names as any ordinary man or woman would sign, all of the names were written with the family name first, just as they appeared in the street list supplied by the Registration Commission...