Word: shafted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cameras. It seems that there is a custom in Cambridge when April with her showers sleety has allowed a short hiatus in the vernal equinox--and the custom is this, young and old tall and short, discreet and indefinite--all take each other's picture. Where proud the shaft of the monument on the common lifts its granite head, there I saw two girls with their boy friends taking each other's pictures with frank abandon. So mirror will be the richer soon by one enlarged, unretouched photograph of Mazie on a Monument--which rather irritates me, custom...
...them it is certain that the tomb was never broken into. Any other entrance into such a well-like structure is out of the question. For weeks the work went on of the question. For weeks the work went on of the clearing of the ponderous limestone blocks. The shaft grew deeper and deeper. All records for depth were broken. Temporary quarters for the workers were built the hole and barbed wire was put up to keep off prying tourists...
After going down forty feet a little niche was found in the wall of the shaft. Within it was the head of a bull, roughly embalmed. From inscriptions relation to ancient burial customs it is believed that the royal occupant of the tomb may be shrouded in the skin of the bull itself far below...
...shaft went still deeper. Workers were lowered in wicker baskets from the surface to cut out the blocks. The rock far below proved to below proved to be less solid than at the surface and big chunks flaked off and were dislodged by the baskets. Finally on March 7, the 100 foot mark was reached and still the bottom was not attained. Tapping on the wall the workers discovered a hollow sound, however, and correctly assumed that the shaft went down by one of the great chambers...
...hole was made a little larger and the next day the workers of the Expedition went to the shaft with two powerful mirrors. One was lowered to the floor of the tomb by light lines and the other was focused to throw the light of the sun through the hole. When the inside mirror had been jiggled to the right position it reflected the sun's light from the first mirror to the interior of the tomb and the watchers far above got their first clear impression of what they had found...