Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School: 60 girls, mostly Negroes, aged 14 to 21, were its inmates. All had been thrice convicted, mostly for sex offenses. Twenty-six of the girls were syphilitic and practically all of them had gonorrhea. There was no full-time doctor in attendance. The girls lived in locked cells on unlighted brick corridors, with only one toilet and one bathtub (with no hot water) for every 16 girls. One delinquent had her illegitimate baby in her cell. All of them ate in the kitchen where the laundry was hung to dry. The only training was doing the School...
...night of Oct. 17, 1935, eight days after New Jersey's Court of Errors & Appeals had unanimously affirmed Hauptmann's death sentence, Governor Hoffman, a Republican, secretly visited the condemned man's cell, talked with him for more than an hour. Shortly thereafter the squat, hard-driving Governor sensationally re-opened the quiescent Hauptmann Case by publicly expressing doubt of the German carpenter's sole guilt, announcing that he had launched an independent investigation of the crime under New Jersey's famed small-town detective, Ellis Parker. The Governor charged State Police Superintendent H. Norman...
...material to be centrifuged is placed in a tiny windowed cell in the rim of the disk. What goes on in the cell while the machine is spinning can be seen by stroboscopic light-extremely rapid, brief flashes from a mercury vapor arc. The flashes are timed to illuminate the cell at precisely the same point of every revolution and thus the cell appears motionless. A Zeiss camera nine feet long is trained on it to take pictures...
Demolishing the old New York County Penitentiary on Welfare Island, wreckers uncovered traces of the large window which in 1874 embellished the cell of New York's notorious William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed...
...task before him as adviser to the King of Kings will entail tenuous manipulation of high stakes, and if American war correspondents are right considerable fretting over climate. For Ethiopia nights, Dr. Spencer has purchased a silk hat. Should he be called on, Dr. Spencer could also play the cell in the cool of the evening, since he was an accomplished cellist at Grinnell, as well as an orator and vocalist...