Word: locked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shortly appeared that faculty, students, most of Omaha were on Dr. Sea-lock's side. Some of his friends arranged a conference with a doubtful regent who might be persuaded to switch his vote. Late one afternoon Dr. Sealock was waiting to hear the result of that conference when he sat down at his desk, started his letter to Senator Norris. The telephone rang. The doubtful regent had called off the conference. ''It looks like a long fight," said the voice on the telephone. Dr. Sealock finished the letter, sat down to supper. After supper he talked...
Headquarters: Stick 'em in the vault and lock...
...found a perfect place to hide from his 6-year-old sister in a game of hide-&-seek. In a vacant apartment across the hall he had found an abandoned icebox, removed the shelves and climbed in, slamming the door behind him. On the outside, the strong snap-lock fell into place. John was surrounded on six sides by unbroken zinc. Police of five states searched a day for him. Then John Carpenter Sr. found the grimy mark of a boy's hand on the icebox door, his son's suffocated body...
...Have three good-looking young girls walking in single file, tolling school bells and carrying a Werewolf banner. They will sound a curfew for all who would be careful to avoid werewolves. The sign reads: . . . 'Bar Your Doors. Lock Your Windows. Go to the Strand...
Many a Palestine site is shared among two or more religious sects. The most cherished one, the Holy Sepulchre (of Christ) is tended by Franciscan monks but, by old tradition, has Mohammedan doorkeepers, who used calmly to lock in the meek monks every night. What dismayed Editor Morrison and other members of his cruise was that the worst charlatanry was exhibited not by dragoman guides but by Greek and Roman priests, in charge of holy spots whence their Churches derive substantial revenue. It was bad enough, wrote Dr. Morrison, that after 20 centuries and repeated destructive battles in Palestine...