Word: cell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleventh time Dartmouth tried to beat Yale and failed. Yale locked up Dartmouth's star, Myles Lane, in a cell of vicious tackles and won, 19-0. Though Lane went without his touchdowns he retained his lead in individual point score in the East, 101; since his nearest rival Booth of Pittsburgh (62), rested while his undefeated team sent substitutes to trample Allegheny...
...ought to be hanged! I'll kill you! Where is my ring? It cost $600! Tell me where it is, you villain!" Mr. Koch's plump cheeks puffed; his breath popped; he burst into tears. Police shouldered the angry matrons away and helped the rascal to a cell...
...special section, the General Electric Co. exhibited a photo-electric cell by means of which the sun itself could automatically turn on and off the lights in street lampposts. In another section, detectors were shown, so sensitive that merely a puff of breath on the tubes would cause gongs to clamor. Said Fire Commissioner...
...cells lives a drab old maid with a parrot. To Mrs. Bowman's son (Douglass Mont-gomery), who has groped to young manhood in blindness, the spinster is kind, therefore beautiful. He venerates her as he does his own frowsy mother, who, when he was seven and still had his sight, must have been a golden beauty. His illusion of a pretty, black-eyed inamorata brings his first sex consciousness. It sweeps into his life with bewildering ecstasy, as the music of a symphony orchestra might come suddenly to a chanting savage. Into his world of sound, thus transposed...
...demonstration of television. The two score gentlemen who went were impressed deeply by the ingenuity of Mr. Baird's "optical lever," a series of whirling lenses mounted on discs, which break up an optical image into minute constituent parts. They were even more impressed by the Baird photo-electric cell, of the colloidal selenium type, which could capture and transmit the minute image parts at unprecedented speed. Last week, between sessions of the British Association, members sought out Inventor Baird in Leeds to see him manipulate his latest tele-visors, which are now so refined that they can "see things...