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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Archive, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1916.  
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"The pessimist, instead of hoping that tomorrow's skies will be sunny, prefers to remember that yesterday's skies were clouded."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars by Carl Garrison, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1935.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"A break in the great drought.  It rained 600 million years ago."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Practice Book For Me Level 2 by Thorn, McCreary-Juhasz, Smith, Munroe & Richmond, 1966.
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Old News (permalink)
"Where simple hill-folk meet city-folk once a week."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Johnson Journal, 1948.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1926 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Literary Cavalcade, 1961.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Taylor University's 1911 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Thief was sarcastic.  Rang up a dollar on cash register before leaving."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 1902.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Buena Vista College's 1918 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fort Hays State's 1970 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Rockets on the way to Saturn."  From Going-To-The-Sun by Vachel Lindsay, 1923.
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