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Today — April 30, 2026

The Right Word (permalink)
"Our minds get tricks and attitudes, as our bodies do."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars by Carl Garrison, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Subterranean Worlds Inside Earth by Timothy Green Beckley, 1992.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1977.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From People and Places by Horn, McBroom & Bishop and illustrated by Sperry, Stein & Paus, 1940.
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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 Understanding the Arts by Helen Gardner, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'This is the house,' said the tramp."  From Grimm's Fairy Tales Retold In One-Syllable Words, 1899.
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Old News (permalink)
"We are all criminals."  From the Duluth Herald, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. Hall, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1935.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1893 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories Old and New, Book One by F. C. Biehl.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1906 yearbook.  Scientific: How to Spot the Loch Ness Monster Every Time.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rosicrucian Digest, 1935.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1919 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brother Bears by Anna Williams Arnett and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1927.
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