Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irwin Away. For the murder of beauteous, pictureworthy Veronica Gedeon and of her mother and a male boarder in their Manhattan apartment (TIME, April 12, 1937), syphilitic, tuberculous Robert Irwin was sentenced to 139 years in prison. Taken from Manhattan to a padded cell at Sing Sing, where he turned over $500 to prison guards, Sculptor Irwin said famed Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz had given him the money for pleading guilty to three second-degree murders. Lawyer Leibowitz is proud that he has "never lost a client to the electric chair...
...ever there was an ignored stepchild, the Law School is one. Once we leave the impeccable faculty, the scene is dismal. Austin Hall is a dingy relic, its classrooms ill-lighted, its accommodations cramped. Hastings is a typical New York tenement; Perkins, a cell block. Even so, they can house only a minority of the students. There are absolutely no dining facilities. We visit the A.A. during the Fall--after purchasing student books--and are handed seats (week after week) in the recesses of the Colonnades. Should we complain, one of their impolite minions snaps back that Harvard...
...Sachs is working on colchicene, a substance which will prevent the cell walls from forming during the reproductive process. This means that the nuclei will be twice as large since the nuclei of two adjoining cells will fuse together and the doubled number of chromosomes doubles the size of the plant...
With over $30,000 collected by Dorothy Thompson at his disposal, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan, already an object of world sympathy, last week found his Paris jail cell a mecca for top-flight criminal lawyers. The Corsican showman of the Paris bar, Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferri, boomed: "I have agreed to defend this youth on international and humane grounds!" The no less great Maitre Henry Torres and six other Maitres joined up to make a defense team of eight...
Twenty minutes later the membrane became thinner at one point, and two gobs of yellowish jelly ("polar bodies") were pushed out. Then the cell became furrowed, but cell division did not actually take place, and the egg was kept alive for only eight hours...