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Today — March 30, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Primer by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by G. A. Harker, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book Six, 1936. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 1928.
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The Right Word (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Titania's Radio Fairies by The Sandman, 1924.
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Old News (permalink)
"Magic carpet two miles above earth."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hygienic Pig and Other Stories by Janet Fiield Heath, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tale of Bunny Cotton-tail by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Dorothy Dulin, 1922.
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Old News (permalink)
"Shaving, waste of time and money, they decide."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"All dancing is haunted" (Lincoln Kirstein, "What Ballet Is All About," 1959).  From Ohio State University's 1971 yearbook.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1923 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Masks, Heads, and Faces by Ellen Russell Emerson, 1891.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1931.
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is perpetual morning.  Morning is when I am awake and there is dawn in me" (Thoreau).  From Wheaton College's 1969 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1879.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg College's 1916 yearbook.
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