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Suddenly Prosecutor Wilentz electrified the courtroom with news that was to many indeed new: "Hauptmann . . . has got this ladder right around his neck. . . . One rung of that ladder, one side of that ladder comes right from his attic, put on there with his tools, and we will prove it to you! . . . We demand the penalty of murder in the first degree...
...penetrate that room is my desire, The extreme attic of the mind, that lies...
...From the day he answered in couplet the satirical thrust of a classmate "his blessed ruin was inevitable." He fell in with a theatrical company. His father threw him out of the house when he married the leading lady. He took to drink, drifted into poverty, died in the attic of his father's house. The best Bostonians attended his funeral. Gilbert Stuart painted his portrait from a death mask...
...March 1876, two young scientists worked hard, fast and eagerly in their shop in a Boston boardinghouse attic. One was Thomas Augustus Watson. The other was Alexander Graham Bell. Following Bell's instructions Watson had constructed the first crude telephone, but the results were disappointing. Sounds came over the wire, but no intelligible words...
...idea was put into effect as a result of injuries and near injuries which kept the residents of Wigglesworth in a state of continuous terror last winter. The steam outlets have been made through the roof by removing the slate, drilling until steam was struck in the maze of attic pipes, connecting the copper tube, and covering the hole in the roof again...