Word: coverse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within the casket were what Howard Carter expected to find-four Canopic jars, rotund and high-shouldered. Each stood for one of the tutelary demons of the dead -dog-headed Hapt (Hepy*) who represented the north, man-headed Amset for the south, ape-headed Duamutef for the east, falcon-headed...
The covers came loose and revealed standing upright, inside each jar a small sarcophagus, the elaborate golden miniature of the great gold case that held the king's mummy. The little coffins, within the Canopic jars, within the alabaster box on its sledge, within the long-sealed tomb suggested...
As a pretty bit of ceremony to commemorate the sesquicentennial anniversary of the signing of the United States first treaty, or as a fitting, if anticlimactical, acknowledgement of Lindbergh's accomplishments in diplomacy, the peace pact signed simultaneously yesterday in Washington and Paris was most successful. As an effective measure...
And now, appropriately, this book on "Old Boston Taverns" issued by Butterfield's Bookshop on Bromfield street, has come to our attention. From its many illustrations and anecdotes, you can learn of long forgotten Red Lions, Greyhounds, Cromwell's Heads, and Green Dragons of Boston. A map, too, marks their...
Thousands of Mexicans were at the Valbuena Flying Field at dawn this morning eager to greet Col. Lindbergh. . . . At 8:40 President Calles arrived accompanied by his entire cabinet . . . Ambassador Morrow, seated between President Calles and General Obregon. . . . With reports at 10:30 that Col. Lindbergh was half way between...