Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...themselves. He braced up and adjusted his cowl about his shoulders, against the tiny suggestion of a Fall chill. Slowly he descended the steps to the water's edge, to the conceald spot under the graceful arch of the bridge that serves him in summer as an anchorite's cell, against the day when the ivory walls of Memorial Hall Tower would be brushed free of cobwebs and it for winter's occupancy...
...bone in the brain is an exceedingly rare freak. Yet it may happen when a cell from a cancerous bone floats through the blood and takes root in the brain. Last week the American Journal of Cancer carried the report of such a bone in the brain of a man who originally had a cancer in his left thigh bone...
Last week Professor William Ruthzauff Amberson of the University of Tennessee believed that he had progressed one important step beyond Moscow's technique because he had kept cats alive on nothing but ox blood. His method is to break down the bovine hemoglobin, the substance in red blood cells which carries oxygen throughout the body. This cell-free hemoglobin Professor Amberson mixes with Ringer's solution, common table and other salts in distilled water resembling the constitution of blood serum. Cats perfused completely with Dr. Amberson's blood mixture have lived as long as 36 hours. Then...
When the device is in operation the patient stands so that the x-rays throw shadows of his bones and viscera upon a fluoroscopic screen. A television scanning disk looks over the grey shadows piece meal, lets them illuminate three photo electric cells. One cell responds only to heavy shadows, another to light shadows, the third to medium greys. In turn one cell activates a red neon tube, another a yellow helium tube, the third a blue mercury tube. Lenses combine those col ors and a second scanning disk synchronized with the first paints a colored x-ray image...
...night they took William Cody Kelley from his cell, stripped him except for shorts and socks, marched him into the death chamber where there are three chairs. Into the middle chair they plopped Killer Kelley, strapped him tight, put a blindfold over his eyes. Beneath the chair was a trough containing twelve potassium cyanide "eggs." Under the trough was a bucket of sulphuric acid. Silently the guards withdrew and sealed the door. Through the windows peered 15 physicians. A lever was pulled. The "eggs" dropped into the bucket. White fumes boiled up. In ten seconds Kelley was unconscious...