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Word: celling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newark cell, said Prisoner Burns: "I am looking for the justice of New Jersey to save me from certain death." Later he admitted he had never been chained or whipped in Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES 6? CITIES: Fugitive | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...whose furtive behavior he had marked while strolling his beat a few days before. The caption identified him?Walter Clyde Davis, wanted in Colorado Springs for embezzling $500,000. Last week the detective found his man again, arrested him. Unprotesting, Davis went along, hanged himself in his cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grit | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...Stebbins began the work on Madison s hill. Last year he got a leave of absence, went out to California's Mt Wilson. To Mt. Wilson's 100-in. reflector he attached a photo-electric cell (which translates faint light into a current of electricity) and continued his studies of the brightness and color of stars. At Ann Arbor Mich, last month he was ready to tell the National Academy of Sciences that estimates of star distances from the earth must be revised from 10% to 200%. Other astronomers hailed his announcement as confirmation of their own researches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Star-Dust Man | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

Everyone knows that the setting sun looks red because man sees it through an earth-enveloping cloud of gas and dust With his cell and reflector Dr. Stebbins found the same apparent redness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Star-Dust Man | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

More plaudits came to Wisconsin's astronomer last week with the description in the annual report of the Carnegie Institution of an improved type of photo-electric cell which he and his assistants have developed. Used with Mt. Wilson's world's-largest telescope, it will extend man's range of heavenly observation from the present limit of about 25,000,000 light years to some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Star-Dust Man | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

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