Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among characteristic U. S. luxuries are jail cell doors of iron or steel bars. Considered fantastically extravagant abroad, these permit the U. S. jailbird to see out, give him a feeling of proximity to other human beings as they pass up & down the corridor. In Europe cell doors are solid, cheap, have a peephole closed by a metal flap. Day & night, usually at 20 minute intervals, the prisoner hears the flap click, knows that he is being peeped at by his guards. This makes most prisoners nervous, has come to be accepted as a prison commonplace. In Marseille last week...
Since all European prisoners must bear it, Marseille prison physicians certified Mio Kraj to be "slightly unbalanced." They then returned him to his cell and the peeping continued, despite irate protests by Mio Kraj's lawyer: "You are driving my client...
...degree angle, is reflected to a "light valve." Inside the valve is a shutter which vibrates 2,400 times per second-faster than a humming bird's wings. The reflected beam sends the lights & shadows of the picture through the shutter to a conventional photo-electric cell ("electric eye")- There the image is translated into electric impulses which flash over the wires-10.000 mi., if desired-to the receiving machine. The receiver reverses the process, registering the image on a sensitized film, which is then developed and printed like any ordinary picture...
Truculently the Hunterdon prosecutor admitted that he "did not suspect persons interested directly in Hauptmann's defense of adopting underhand methods." but charged that the incident was of a piece with other recent happenings which might yet "land somebody else in a cell along with Hauptmann...
...village jail. When correspondents arrived they found the village in a panic. Nobody would say anything except the policeman. "Now don't go writing any atrocity stories," he begged. "Fräulein Sittell has plenty of food and all possible conveniences. Her dancing around merrily in her cell is the best proof that she is being well treated. No, you can't see her, but undoubtedly she is in good spirits...