Word: graven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...directory is found graven, whittled, carved, and scratched on the desks in Sever. Multitudinous are the names it includes and of diverse shapes and characters: names done in Slavic, Greek, Semitic names ranging from the tiny nonpareil to the enormous two line Great Primer or even to the Canon. The owner's personality is revealed by the names, for if his name be whittled in squat fat little letters, then must his soul be squat and fat, and if his name be done in dignified and stately capitals, must his should be dignified and stately...