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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Archive, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1916.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Microcosm, 1979.
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Old News (permalink)
"Listen to the still small voice."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book III, 1933.  
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard of the seven deadly sins, but the seven deadly studies are lesser known: logic, psychology, Bible, math, sociology, physics, and chemistry.  From the Woman's College of Baltimore's 1899 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Not yet the end."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1926 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phrenological Journal, 1875.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"As scary as they look, these are the leaders of tomorrow."  From Didsbury Review, 2015.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro College's 1931 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Magic things."  From The Instructor, 1969.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Folk of the Woods by Lucius Crocker Pardee and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1913.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hillins College's 1980 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1967.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1924 yearbook.
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The Right Word (permalink)
"I dread the toil of dropping buckets into enpty wells, and growing old in drawing nothing up."  From The Essentials of the English Sentence by Elias H. MacEwan, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Understanding the Arts by Helen Gardner, 1932.
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