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Barrels of whiskey and moonshine are traditionally labeled with X's (one X being weakest and three X's being strongest, as we learn in One-Letter Words: A Dictionary). But lesser-known is that coffee used to be roasted to a XXXX strength. Our vintage coffee ad is from c. 1890. The four X's on the vintage Coca Cola postcard below are, we think, unrelated.
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"It may surprise you to learn there are over 300 distinctive theories of psychotherapy in the world today." —Men Couseling Men
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You're aware of the challenge of reading "microscopic kanji characters" ( Craig Briggs, I Love Japan), but here are inchoate kanji as seen under a microscope. Our illustration appears in Anales de la Academia de Ciencias Medicas, Fisicas y Naturales de la Habana, 1919.
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Ironically, a spade's true nature is to take root, as we see in Boons and Blessings by S. C. Hall, 1875.
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