Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glass inkwell, he watched for an opportunity, let fly. It caught Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera under the temple, stopped the riot. Thirty-seven Fascists in the courtroom were arrested. Fascist Primo de Rivera was hurried to a clinic to have his head patched, then put back in his cell to cool off for five months more...
Last week Captain Cadek was quickly found guilty of accepting bribes, sentenced to from two to 20 years in the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus. Captain Cadek sent out from his Cleveland cell for a sack of chewing tobacco, stoically remarked : "A good guy always gets kicked around...
...creaking badly. Until "due process" is pried out of the document into which it once crept when no one was watching, both Congress and the legislatures will continue to be irresponsible debating societies, while the nine justices of the Supreme Court carefully carry the key to their padded cell...
...knows if he admits his identity he will be killed. Be cause they are not perfectly sure who he is, the Nazis at the concentration camp do not kill him out of hand but shut him up in solitary confinement. Now & then S. A. guards come into his cell and beat him unconscious. In the pitch darkness he loses track of the days, worries about whether his wife in Prague is still alive, about whether he will go mad and betray himself, his comrades. In the darkness, he makes speeches, imagines music. After a while he feels the risk...
...adjusted for proper spacing, a scanner supported on tiny rollers moves back & forth across the printed page examining one letter after another in rapid succession. The light passes through a lens, thence to a slotted, motor-driven disk which analyzes the shape of the letter. Then a photo-electric cell converts the light into electric current. The reader places his hand on a wooden box so that it rests against a row of nine small glass beads. The electric current causes tiny rods to push up momentarily through holes in the beads. The position of these rods corresponds...