Word: lid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thoroughly sterilizing it. In case of cancer the cleansed piece of skull may at once be clamped back in place. In case of infection, the skull surgeon must wait days and weeks until all traces of infection within the skull cavity are eliminated. Then he can clap the cleansed lid upon the opening...
...Cord exciting was that it incorporated front-wheel drive in a completely new design. The body is low and sleek with a rounded rectangular one-piece hood that opens from the front and is banded with vane-like "Venetian" (blind) louvers. Water and oil caps are under a cowl lid on the right, matching a cowl ventilator on the left. Front lights are retractable like an airplane's landing gear, disappearing into the fenders when little cranks are turned on the dash. On convertible models, the top disappears into a covered compartment behind the seat, leaving nothing exposed...
...Buffalo, N. Y., as kinsmen of the late Michael Budnik carried his coffin into Queen of the Peace Church for the funeral, the coffin began smoking. The mourners opened the coffin, doused out the flames started by a cigaret that a mourner had dropped before the lid was put on. As the pallbearers carried Michael Budnik up the aisle of the church, the coffin smoked again. Thoroughly drenched, Michael Budnik was buried...
...other members of the cast are uproarious as the Welsh villagers, eager to learn about the miracle. The proof is final when Mrs. Resurrection Jones. who broke up her own funeral by tapping at her con lid, feels the leg and learns to her own disappointment that it's not one of those china things...
...least of adroit Joseph Stalin's feats is to sit year after year on the lid of the World's No. 2 famine...