Word: lid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the lid blew off. Aroused, so the police said, by relief workers' complaints at their own meager salaries, a mob of 10,000 jobless poured out of the Falls Road district and marched on the city poorhouse in an effort to force the Ulster government to increase their dole. A gang of toughs discovered a Free State truck loaded with cases of Guinness's stout from Dublin. In no time the air was thick with stout bottles. Store windows were smashed, dairies and greengrocers looted, bonfires lighted. Hand to hand fighting broke out at several places...
Fortnight ago Dr. Beebe lowered his bathysphere empty to 3,000 ft. at the end of a stout cable. When he hauled it back to the deck of his tug Freedom, the bathysphere was full of water under pressure such that it blew the lid's bolt across the deck after it was loosened. There was a tiny leak in a port gasket. Any surface creature inside would have been crushed to jelly...
...door; it was 'way inside.'" Newsstand sales were around 20,000. Advertising for the year was only 209,000 lines. Into McCall Co. as president then came William Bishop Warner, now also chairman of American Woolen Co. One of his first acts was to lift the lid of the editorial budget. For the next twelve years McCall's zoomed. Its lineage last year was 7,718,000, sixth in rank of all U. S. magazines; its circulation 2,507,000, of which more than 1,000,000 was newsstand...
...description of a woman's every significant movement during parturition. He invented it while earning his M. A. degree in obstetrics & gynecology at Western Reserve University. Details of the Dodek device appeared in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics. Essentially it consists of a plunger which pushes against the soft rubber lid of an air container. Every movement of the plunger changes the air pressure in the container. The changing pressure agitates a pen which writes a zigzag line on a moving sheet of paper. An aluminum tripod holds the device so that the exposed end of the plunger rests gently...
...Chinese pot that has been boiling ominously since the Japanese invasion of Shanghai six months ago, blew the lid off last week. First Wang Ching-wei, President of the Executive Yuan-i. e. Premier of the Nanking Government- resigned. Wang, a Cantonese, was the most belligerent of the anti-Japanese leaders of China. Long an opponent of Marshal Chiang Kaishek, whom he considers a self-centred militarist, he forgot his differences at the time of the Shanghai incident to help Chiang oppose Japan. Marshal Chiang has lost much face by his continued failure to consolidate and pacify central China...