Word: vaulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Officialdom permitting, the bodies were to be removed from the vault on Oct. 18, during the course of a solemn religious ceremony, Ambassador Harvey being present...
When the tomb was finally found under the floor of the parish church in Cranham, in the hills of Essex, England, Dr. Jacobs sent for sharper tools, sped the burrowing, stepped triumphantly into a vault where lay the coffins of General and Lady Oglethorpe. The coffins were of elmwood, lead-lined, in a vault of heavy red bricks...
...Jacobs: " When we have disinterred the body, I shall leave in the vault for the enlightenment of future generations a written story, on parchment, of the circumstances of the transfer of his remains to America. . . . Over the tomb I shall place . . . an appropriate marble slab commemorating today's great event...
Alfred C. Bossom, Manhattan architect, has invented a device for saving persons accidentally locked in bank vaults from suffocation. It consists of a tank holding a 24-hour supply of oxygen. The locking of the door automatically switches on an electric light which illuminates a card of directions for the person locked in. The card tells how to turn the stopcock of the tank, which releases the oxygen gradually as needed. Mr. Bossom will not patent his device because of its humanitarian need. The first one is being made for a Galveston, Tex., bank. Many vault imprisonments which...
Both of the dashes should have a distinctly Blue tinge, as also the pole vault, in which the Yale entrants took all three places against Princeton. In the javelin throw, also, Yale has a distinct advantage, since both Storrs and Bench are making some long heaves this season. In the Yale meet last year Greenidge won for the University over Storrs, but this season the Yale spearsman has shown very great improvement, and his throws are all hovering around the 200-foot mark...