Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles, when Samuel Whitaker was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his wife, he flung up his arms, cried: "If I am guilty of this horrible crime, may God strike me dead before I get to my cell." Before he reached his cell at San Quentin Prison, Samuel Whitaker suffered a heart attack, fell dead...
...with refreshing relish. Loretta Young, as a young heiress who announces her engagement to the reporter in order to turn the heat of publicity on him for a change, is excellent. Slim Summerville supplies added amusement in his role of a country judge, the doors of whose cell block are constantly falling from their hinges...
Jailed for failing to meet judgment in a minor civil suit, Harrison Parker continued to hound his huge adversary. From his cell in Cook County Jail he accused the Tribune of trying to poison him with an arsenical birthday cake, raised such a row that Weymouth Kirkland of the Tribune's high-powered law firm of Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis...
...rays v. Cells. Using X-ray bombardments much more prolonged and severe than those employed in medicine, Dr. Hugo Fricke of the Long Island Biological Laboratory arrived at a theory of what happens when an X-ray photon (unit of radiation) is received in a living cell. The high energy carried on the photon swings the electrons of the cell up to correspondingly high energy levels which represent temperatures of 1,000,000°. This lasts for only some .00001 sec., but large protein molecules may be broken up, carbon dioxide and hydrogen given off, and water molecules...
...planned for three age groups: six to nine, nine to twelve, twelve and over. The American history course this year is dramatizing the past of eleven U. S. cities. The Science Club broadcasts simple experiments to be performed by the listener, such as opening and inspecting a dry cell battery or observing goldfish in a pan of deaerated water to prove that fish must breathe. The geography course recounts the travels of an imaginary Hamilton family, conveniently consisting of one child in each age group and Grandmother Hamilton, who provides learned commentary on places from Bogota to Baffin Island where...