Word: watermarked
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...interest in heraldry suggests he may have been a nobleman, though his faulty Latin-the patrician language at the time-contradicts it. He very likely was well traveled; a Bern watermark appears on several prints...
Organized 98 years ago, the Prohis hit their high watermark in 1892, when their presidential candidate got 271,058 votes. Since then, they have endured a long, dry spell at the polls. Their most notable victories in decades were the 1942 election of a constable in a Kan sas township and the 1959 triumph of two town board candidates in Indiana. "I would to God we could elect one good honest dry politician," cried Arizona Evangelist Charles W. Burpo last week, but no Andrew Volstead is in sight and the party's prospects are at best as low-proof...
...Since the handwriting is in fully developed form and free of accretions from styles that developed later, a date in the 1440s seems most likely. Second, the parchment and paper used can be traced to the same period, and a unique spectacled head of a bull used as a watermark on the paper shows it most likely was produced at a mill that began operating in Basel, Switzerland, about...
...During the 1919 storm in Corpus Christi, local citizens took refuge in several downtown buildings, one of which was the Nueces County Courthouse. How then could you write of Dr. Robert Simpson that "he swam to the roof of the courthouse" [Aug. 16]? Numerous watermarks have established that the tide crested at 9 ft. above mean sea level. Wave action above the tide level was about 2½ ft., making the highest watermark...
...Golden Bear, a 546-ft.. 22.500-ton Mariner-class freighter, is the first major private vessel built on the West Coast in 25 years. The launching was also a high watermark for Pacific Far East Lines: though only eight years old. Pacific Far East has already passed American President Lines as the largest U.S. flag line on routes from Los Angeles and San Francisco to the Far East...