Word: lid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contemporary newsman reported that Daumier looked like one of his own cruelest caricatures, "but if one . . . tries to penetrate this bourgeois shell, the features soon brighten into life. That little eye with its heavy lid, half-closed in perpetual winking, thrusts at you its clear sharp look . . . even his nose seems to enjoy the observations he has just made...
Reverse the Coin. But Dr. Oppenheimer would not have the scientists-even if they could-shut down the lid of their fearful Pandora's chest now, for treasures are there as well as imps of death: "Out of [science's] work there will come . . . things which will improve man's health, ease his labor, and divert and edify him. . . . There is no need to belabor this point, nor its obverse-that out of science there will come, as there has in this last war, a host of instruments of destruction...
...Franconia, New Hampshire cross country and slalom races will lift the lid on the eastern racing season Saturday and Sunday with 50 contestants from eastern colleges expected in the langlauf, 100, in the slalom, and 30 inches of snow on Franconia's Cannon Mountain. The seven-mile cross country race is slated for Saturday in Franconia Notch while the slalom, a 1.8 mile affair down the mountain trail, will be held Sunday...
With only three days of practice under its belt, the Jayvee basketball squad makes its 1947-48 debut tonight at 8 o'clock when it plays host to Burdett College. Tonight's season-opener for Hal Kopp's charges lifts the lid on a 16-game schedule...
...oval gold snuffbox with a cameo sea scene on its lid, framed by 50 large diamonds...