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Word: celling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From his cell in Alcatraz Prison Al Capone sent for a Hohner two-tone pitch pipe to keep himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...also referred to Richard Whitney, whose name, he said, "still stands in the Harvard University catalogue . . . although he is now occupying a cell in Sing Sing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jerome, Davis, Teachers Union President, Raps Conant Policy | 6/10/1938 | See Source »

...Selection is made by a gadget that looks like a telephone dial. The gadget can be carried indoors & out, works the receiver from any point within 75 feet. Philco officials are not revealing the principle of operation, letting it be known only that a radio tube and a dry cell are parts of the mechanism. The control works exclusively with the set to which it is synchronized, does not permit playing games with a neighbor's radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mystery Control | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...National Guard, which has headquarters at Oklahoma City, maintains units in Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. In August 1924, the division, at the suggestion of the Arizona department, adopted as its insignia an old Navajo Indian emblem, a swastika.* In August 1924, Adolf Hitler was in Cell No. 7, Landsberg Fortress, near Munich, serving time for his "beer-hall Putsch," eleven years away from making the swastika the centre of the German national flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Emblem | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Using a super-sensitive apparatus containing a C electric battery, a galvanometer, and a photoelectric cell he was able to record the amount of deflection in the current caused by the comb, which was separated from his instrument by 20 ft. of open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

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