Word: lid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HAVEN, May 17-Yale's fine lacrosse team slammed the lid on a disappointing Harvard season today, routing the Crimson, 12 to 3, before 250 fans at Lapham Field here...
When the Student Council shot over the head of he Faculty to appeal directly to President Conant on he issue of membership lists as a requirement for recognition of an undergraduate group, it may have trained the bounds of protocol and procedure, but it lid not overstress the importance of the problem. The question of the membership lists requires a full and air hearing in the Faculty, and we hope that the Council's breach of order will not dissuade the Faculty from giving this matter its attention...
...controls was the fat U.S. dollar balance, built in part by heavy U.S. investments in Canadian development. The country's U.S. dollar reserves are now brimming over the $1,680,000,000 mark, more than three times what Canada had on hand in 1947, when she put the lid down on U.S. travel and imports. "We are sufficiently sure of our ability to pay our bills," said Finance Minister Douglas Abbott. "We don't need protective measures...
M.I.T. failed to provide any serious opposition to the varsity squash team's lid for its second straight undefeated season when they bowed 9 to 0 to the Crimson Saturday. The freshman also came through with a shut-out victory...
...excitement to the entire work. Subordinates with less than Churchillian lust for living hard in dangerous times could never be sure that the Prime Minister would take their human weaknesses for granted. In April, 1944 he radioed to the British ambassador to Greece: "You speak of living on the lid of a volcano. Wherever else do you expect to live in times like these...