Word: cell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Billings has just signed a bill which provides that the "third degree" shall not be "administered" to a person suspected of having committed a crime until he has had an opportunity to consult counsel. It is further provided that a copy of this statute shall be placed in each cell of all penal institutions so that prisoners may be aware of their rights...
...Thereupon Prisoner Pierre Michel, procuring a knife, cut off his toe, laid the bleeding member on the desk of the examining magistrate, declared that, unless released, each of his mates would cut off a toe, send it to the Magistrate. Said the Magistrate: "Bandage him. Lead him to his cell...
...night of Feb. 7 that Tschoudnovsky, accompanied by Red soldiers, went to the prison to inform the captives of their immediate execution. Admiral Kolchak was in his cell, fully dressed under a fur coat, and wearing a Cossack hat. He was expecting rescue at the hands of White forces under General Kappel, who was not far distant...
...lecture, so he lectured in the meeting place of a body of "infidels" and there, in 1831 (at 26), established the Liberator. He went twice to England on behalf of the cause, founded the American Anti-Slavery Society, was mobbed in the streets of Boston and put in a cell to preserve his life-but he continued to publish the Liberator...
...sending was similar to that used last May for transmitting pictures by telephone (TIME, June 2). It consisted of a cylinder in which a photographic negative is placed. A beam of light strikes the cylinder which slowly rotates. Passing through the film it activates a photo-electric cell. The cell gives out electrical impulses in proportion to the strength of the light that filters through the film. The gradations of these electrical impulses are very delicate. If put upon the air, static would greatly interfere with them. Instead they are stored until a given amount (two-millionths of an ampere...