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He directed the board to notify him when the endowment has raised the money and give the court at least 60 day’s notice before it installs an inscription.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
According to the Times, he added an inscription: "Perhaps this is the only book in this library which will bring true profit to its readers".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
"The inscription was very beautiful," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
On its back, a carved inscription reads, “This Machine Kills Fascists.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
From the character and turn of the inscription, “Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,” I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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"The available inscriptions allow us to understand it up to a certain point, but we lack vocabulary and texts," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Once-common literary references to Shakespeare or Dickens have now become as obscure in the common culture as so many Mayan inscriptions.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
Paintings of the course hang on the walls, as do photographs of famous people with heartfelt inscriptions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
Absent any contextual identity, the names and dates Mayan inscriptions reveal are simply that: names and dates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Several tug at the stitching upon their shirts—Liberty to Slaves—which they believed talismanic, as the inscriptions of the African mallams are said to protect against all injury.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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