Word: airtight
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...Arizona State Prison at Phoenix last week, for murdering a fellow cowboy, Frank Rascon was led into an airtight chamber, executed by cyanide gas. When the corpse was carried out, his widow embraced it, kissed the face and lips. Few hours later Mrs. Frank Rascon was hospitalized, seriously ill with cyanide poisoning...
Reasons for Japan's caution last week were two: 1) it already controls North China in all but externals; 2) it wants an airtight technical case against Nanking, to avoid any chance that the League of Nations will declare against Japan the sanctions tested out on Italy...
Each lung, the anatomy lesson went on, is contained in a flexible box made up of ribs on the outside, the.diaphragm underneath, and a partition called the mediastinum on the inside. Between those sides of the boxes and the lungs is an airtight cavity...
Latin shrugs greet any query as to where Papa Mussolini and Père Laval earned all that money. Both have airtight alibis...
...harbor germs, they generally acquire the germs after birth. Unborn animals strongly resist the invasion of germs. Therefore Professor Reyniers starts by putting a pregnant guinea pig into a germ-free operating chamber and by Caesarean section taking out her young. Those young he instantaneously puts into a sterile, airtight, air-conditioned cage. They nurse from a glass "mother," drinking sterile synthetic guinea pig milk of Dr. Reyniers' composition. The water and the solid food which they get later is also sterilized before being put into their cage. Portholes let Dr. Reyniers watch the guinea pigs. Two openings sealed...