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Today — March 17, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Subterranean World by George Hartwig, 1871.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Marie: A Seaside Episode by J. P. Ritter, Jr. and illustrated by Coultaus, 1888.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Cat by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1878.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Spelling Program 6 by Thomas and Braun, 1979.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Heaven was as coal, and each star a spark."  From The Martlet, 1963.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The wolf and the coyote with the toothache."  From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'it might have been.'"  From Swarthmore College's 1896 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Hermits are on the way out."  From The Intercollegian, 1957.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Spiral Way by Aldo Carotenuto.
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Old News (permalink)
From Current Sauce, 1986.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon Colleges 1927 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Detroit's 1930 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Gobble!  Gobble!  Get out of here."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Union College's 1991 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Wings mended while you wait."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Applied Drawing by Harold Haven Brown, 1928.
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