Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with machine-gun fire and the conservatives had locked up her old teacher as a Socialist conspirator, threatened to keep him in jail for 19 years (TIME, Dec. 3). The effect was about the same as if the Republicans should seize the Washington Government, throw Artist Bruce into a cell as a dangerous New Dealer...
...professor in the Ukraine invented an electric eye to enable the blind to read ordinary books. A photoelectric cell scans the letters, converts them into electric impulses which make a specially constructed desk vibrate. The sightless reader is expected to put his fingertips on the desk, translate the vibrations...
...With my riding whip, I sometimes give it to prisoners I have had taken into protective custody to save them from the mob. Take that schoolteacher Dr. Steinruck who used to talk so big! I went with several Party members into his cell. He began to talk with a weeping voice and acted like a schoolboy. He did not act like the man I had expected after so much big talk, so I gave him a good thrashing with my whip...
...desultory conference at his Wardha headquarters, Mahatma Gandhi peered at his dollar watch, stood up, hurried out into a blazing sun. Waiting beneath a tree in his orchard were Mr. & Mrs. James Henry Roberts Cromwell (Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke). Gandhi shook hands, led them into a bare cell where they all sat on the floor. Voluble Mr. Cromwell began to expound his economic theories, argue for a "reformed capitalism." Gandhi thought that in India that would make a bad situation worse. Mrs. Cromwell turned the conversation to the Mahatma's campaign against Untouchability, which she said impressed her. Suddenly...
...White Plains, accused of incinerating a five-year-old girl in a furnace, Lawrence Clinton Stone, 24, snubbed his cell mate. Albert Fish, 65, accused of carving a ten-year-old girl to pieces. "Disgusting!" said Prisoner Stone of Prisoner Fish...