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Word: lid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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From this it may deduced that it is not only from those athletically inclined that prayers for a beaming sun, a dry sod or a smooth river surge forth, but equally from those to whom a flash of sunlight against closed lid means a 9 o'clock achieved, whereas a cloudy sky means rest undisturbed until much later hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 5/21/1927 | See Source »

...Japanese print of two birds perched on a human skull. The nearest "thought" sent in was one describing the mask and derby hat worn at one point by Dr. J. V. Woolley, "Honorary Research Officer." And one telepathist accurately described a cardboard box with a scarlet lid which, though not used in the experiment, was present in the prisoners' room and might have come under observation during a period of concentration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lodgic | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...Where the pack was solid, she would back away, and, with a schlup and a slide and a scream of steam, she was high out of water, half on top of the ice. The ice would yield, like an overpacked trunk when a big woman sits on its lid. Slowly she bashed her way up the St. Mary's, freed this ship and that, brought food and fuel to sailors. With continued cold, she may not reach all ships; some may be frozen tightly until spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Last Dollar | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

When the University racquet-men meet the Harvard Club group in Boston this afternoon, the lid comes off the squash season. At the same time, team B. will travel to Newton Center to play the local team, and the first-year outfit will clash with the Newton Center Team C aggregation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUASH PLAYERS TO START SEASON WITH THREE GAMES | 12/4/1926 | See Source »

...Premier's servants, lifting the coffin lid,, were startled by something more ominous than a mere grinning skeleton, which might have seemed appropriate. The coffin contained instead a handsome disemboweling knife beautifully encased in a white leather scabbard and resting on a ceremonial tray. By this expensive present the Kamiya Keiseisha (Opposition Party) pointedly conveyed to the Premier their opinion that he is a perjurer and ought to commit harakiri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gruesome Gift | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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