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It actually makes sense to combine chess with Transcendental Meditation.  As you contemplate your next move, you say, "Ummmm ... ummmm ... ummmm."  From The Martlet, 1974.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.

"Simply dreadful things are happening this week."  From The Martlet, 1968.

From Kansas State's 1984 yearbook.

"She made her bed."  From The Film Daily, 1934.

From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

It's simultaneously 10:30 and 2:45 in Gullbringusysla, Iceland.  This temporal anomaly was documented by Anthony Stanley, who blamed windy conditions.  Though we weren't on location to verify a meteorological cause for the timely weirdness, we spotlight this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies.  The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.

From The Link, 1945.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.

At first glance, we thought she had extra arms to handle literary departmental duties.  From Montclair's 1920 yearbook.

From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.

Not quite sure they were doing it right: "I partied, protested, danced, yelled, cried."  From Concord's 1969 yearbook.

This one has a different cover: Who Likes the Dark? by Virginia Howell.

From Atlantic Christian's 1981 yearbook.  See A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.

"The spritesky skipped in glee."  From St. Nicholas magazine, March 1917.