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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1945.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phonic Primer, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"My only childhood memory of you was reading those ugly books and illustrations of witches and demons and potions."  From Strange Paradise episode 178. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Whenever the tiger perspires large drops of whisky appear all over his body."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1944.
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Old News (permalink)
From Buchtel College's 1919 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kutnar, Son of Pic, written and illustrated by George Langford, 1921.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1907 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Looks like the ballet alphabet has six additional characters, all in tutus.  From Lincoln Kirstein's "Ballet Alphabet," 1939.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A gift of tongues in a world of misunderstanding."  From Walla Walla College's 1970 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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Old News (permalink)
"Lost false teeth and nearly lost life searching for them."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1963 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Record Changer, 1951.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
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Old News (permalink)
"Absence makes the marks grow rounder."  From Armour Institute of Technology's 1926 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The chickadee's "Spring soon" call.  From Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1898.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Microcosm, 1990.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1939 yearbook.
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