Word: lid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Egyptian Government, after breaking open the sealed tomb of TutankhAmen (TIME, Feb. 25, Mar. 3), making an inventory of the contents of the tomb and laboratory, lowering the lid of the sarcophagus to insure the safety of the gold mummy case and covering various relics for protection, sealed the doors of the two rooms still untouched. Howard Carter was not present, is still relying on his suits in the Cairo courts. The officials sanctioned the opening of the tomb to thousands of eager visitors for ten days from Mar. 1, after which it will again be closed until a decision...
...keep your powder dry," William Leach, Under Secretary of State for Air, announced that the Government would carry on its predecessor's policy of expanding the Air Force. "Shame!" cried a Labor member. Mr. Leach said that what was needed were "new excavations to raise the lid from the sarcophagus of the New Testament." Major General J. E. B. Seely (Liberal) retorted: "If the Empire is to be defended by Sermons on the Mount, God help us !" A motion for closure was proposed, but was disallowed by the Speaker. The Government's certain defeat was thereby avoided...
...fight when no nation in Europe except France and Russia is in good fighting trim. But there have come enough facts from Europe to make it certain that Germany is already muttering about the next war, and France is frantically trying to stop it by screwing the lid ever tighter England has shown that it will not go with France under the latter's present methods. Germany cannot be stifled forever; eventually, unless there is some change in present tactics, there will come a war of retribution against France for forcing upon Germany a peace in fact just about...
...Owen's screaming line drive over short stop and threw to Loud, doubling Jenkins off second. In the last half of the inning the Tufts batsmen found easy work and after scoring three runs and sending Herrman to the showers, they finished the good work and effectually nailed the lid on the Crimson chances by collecting four more tallies off Bemis...
ALASKA: The Presidential fish reservation in Alaskan waters, against which Territorial Delegate Sutherland protested, will continue, according to Secretary Hoover. "Having fitted a lid on the further destruction of northwestern Alaskan salmon," said he, "I intend...