Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cameras. Every clear night a group goes from Cambridge to Oak Ridge to take photographs because the conditions of light and atmosphere there are superior to those surrounding Cambridge. During the past week cloudy conditions have made these observations difficult. The 24 inch instrument is now testing a photoelectric cell that will be used in measuring the luminosity of faint stars. This is also the instrument that will open the World's Fair in case it is cloudy at the Lick Observatory on June...
...hiding explosives in their home. Letting the Negroes shoot them down was perfectly legal under Cuba's ingenious ley de fuga (law of flight) which allows police -including the Porra-to kill prisoners "attempting to escape." Reports quickly circulated that Father Valdes Leon had committed suicide in his cell. This was denied by Prison Supervisor Ambrosio Diaz Galup...
...Gothic Vaulting of the Vagabond's narrow cell grew dim in the dusk of the late afternoon. Outside the rain drizzled down, blanket upon blanket, showing the streets below a black ribbon in which closely wrapped figures hastened under the shuddering arcs to the bright shelter of heated chambers. Through the racing, crowding thunderheads above, there still broke a few dull rays of yellow light, which reflected eyrily from Memorial's gray and blood slates into the oaken garret. The Vagabond turned from the casement to the dark and empty chimney corner and lighted the lamp by his deep leathern...
...inquiry room was formed by hanging large curtains of green "ground cloth" at one end of the barren gas-cell shop. White airship fabric draped the dais, where sat Rear Admiral Henry Varnum Butler, commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, president of the court...
When Peter J. Curtis was sentenced to grey-walled Clinton Prison at Dannemora, N. Y. for robbery, he was a sign-painter. Instead of planning a jailbreak, Convict Curtis found his escape on canvas, painting in the barred funnel of light in his cell. Last year the warden gave him a studio to teach other convicts his idea of escape (TIME...