Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S comparison (Oct. 21, p. 56) of a ripe human ovum with a pinhead gives an inadequate concept of the true size of this interesting cell. Actually its diameter is but 1/200 in. This is about the size of the smallest grain of sand that could be seen with the unaided eye. Stated differently, a sphere having the diameter of a common pinhead (1/12 in.) possesses nearly 4,000 times the volume of a human egg. One can compute further that all the eggs needed to replace the present population of the world could be held...
Said Prisoner Hauptmann, just ten years married, in his Trenton death cell: "My God, won't this be a terrible anniversary present for my Annie...
...Public Utility Act were discretionary, not mandatory, Bond & Share might be allowed to live. But should the Public Utility Act survive the test of constitutionality and the Administration survive the test of the next Presidential election. Electric Bond & Share would occupy the No. 1 cell in the industrial death-house...
...monstrosities is the British Empire, an extraordinary "colossus with feet of brass and a head of clay." With its feet of brass it has "trampled down Spain, Holland, France and Germany." Asks Unofficial Observer: "Who will be next? America? Japan? Russia?" This colossus is deathly ill, "weary in every cell," its clay head aching with the problem of preventing war or disorder in Europe which would immobilize the fleet while "the great duel between the white and the yellow races is fought...
...State Penitentiary at Angola, La., James Beadle was serving a life sentence for his part in the murder five years ago of James LeBouef whose body was found in Lake Palourde. To his cell word was brought that his son, Pleasant Beadle, 17, had drowned in the same Lake Palourde trying to rescue Liberty LeBouef, 16, daughter of the late James LeBouef...