Word: sealed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extremely new. Dartmouth is in town and now and then gets scalped and the joy of the University still does not overstep too far the margins set by indifference. But fifty years of opposition more than half of them alternately as host and as guest, have set a unique seal on Harvard's meetings with Yale...
Nevertheless one doubts the absolute permanence of the seal. The glorious afternoon is after all only a memory College spirit takes its bumps periodically; and underneath this periodicity there is clearly a proportion to that scorned symbol of Rotarianism, Success. The appeals of an infuriated group of cheer-leaders waver feebly when the last white line is ninety yards away. There is no entity less abstract in its origins and manifestations than college spirit, and why it should be symbolized and paraded as a Platonic soul-affair, or a causeless hatred in perpetuam, is a mystery...
Among the eight paintings, also are a portrait of the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor under Charles II, of Justice Abney of the Court of Common Pleas under George II, and Sir Nathan Wright, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under William and Mary...
They found letters, typewritten reports, money. They could not find the seal. Taking nothing, the thieves, unapprehended, tiptoed out of the office. Many a U. S. consul sleeps with seal under pillow...
Wily thieves tiptoed into the U. S. consulate at Zagreb one night last week. They wanted the consular seal. With it they could forge visas, and thus wangle Jugoslav emigrants into...