Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among her U. S. admirers, the most ardent was a 13-year-old Brooklyn boy named Walt Whitman, who testified that "nothing finer did any stage ever exhibit-and my boyish heart and head felt it in every minute cell." A year later, at the height of her fame, she quit the stage to marry the heir to a large Georgia plantation, handsome, dilettante Pierce Butler (no kin to Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler). Their marriage started badly, and got worse. When Fanny refused to compromise with social conventions, Pierce agreed with his family, who thought he had married beneath...
...incited his readers, if they had no other weapons, to go after Leon Blum and 140 left Deputies with kitchen knives. When, acting on his advice. Royalists seriously wounded Blum and his wife, Maurras was sentenced to a year in prison. Republican officials permitted him, however, to outfit his cell as a library, and Maurras continued to turn out an ever more venomous two-column daily tirade against the Government. Marking the anniversary of his imprisonment, fellow Royalists presented him with a "civic crown" of beaten gold...
...heart of "Johnny" Green's invention is his use of a tiny beam of light and a photo-electric cell. Whether in the transmitter or in the linotype activator, the light is focused on the coded dot combinations and reflected into the photocell. The varying combinations cause correspondingly varying pulsations in the photocell. These pulsations actuate the appropriate mechanisms in the telegraph printer and in the linotype (or Intertype). Its inventor claims that the speed of the Semagraph is limited only by the speed of the linotype. The number of teletype printers that can receive Semagraph copy from...
...method of tissue culture and that of the culture of whole organs have provided us with the means of . .. . studying the food requirements of each cell type and of each tissue while active and at rest. Thus will be discovered the nature of the specific chemicals demanded by a given organ for its growth and normal function. Perhaps it may then become feasible to supply the living body with the substances indispensable to the development of any organ, or to its regeneration. Instead of injecting hormones into a patient, we .would supply the glands with appropriate nutrient substances and induce...
...City Catholics against allying themselves with Boss Frank Hague, a Roman Catholic, on the grounds that Hague tactics may be used elsewhere against Catholics (a warning, however, not heeded by numerous Jersey City priests and Catholic War veterans). Said Zions Herald (Methodist) : "Jersey City has become essentially a Fascist cell. . . . The danger is that the Roman Catholic Church . . . shall through the misguided zeal or intolerance of some of its followers be subjected to the suspicion that in the 20th Century it endorses coercion over the minds...