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Word: celling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freehold, N. J., Joseph J. Schwark, new Democratic warden, reported to Harold Height, new Democratic sheriff, on disconcerting conditions in the Monmouth County jail. Of the 90 prisoners, 35 had electric cookers, sauce pans, broilers, cutlery & napery in their cells. They all entertained guests at any hour of day or night, kept late hours, gave parties at whim. Prisoners George Parker, Elijah Thompson, John Leddy, Charles High, John Walling were absent. (Later the night keeper found Parker who "when we counted them in the cells, was in the kitchen. When we counted them in the kitchen, Parker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...vault is placed on property adjacent to the new Harvard Astronomical Observatory. It has no superstructure, the only visible part being a skylight over a small workshop next to the vault, in which instruments not susceptible to shocks will be placed. The cell in which the seismographs will be installed will never be entered except to change the recording materials and adjust the machinery. Six seismographs will be used, two to record vertical movements of the earth, and four to record horizontal movements. Two of the later are already made, and are in use in the present seismographic station...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VAULT FOR RECORDING EARTHQUAKES FINISHED | 12/1/1932 | See Source »

...TIME, Nov. 7); tick-bitten Dr. Roscoe Roy ("Spenny") Spencer, who invented a new kind of vaccine (macerated insects which carry the virus of disease) and tried it out first on himself; Dr. Carl Voegtlin, pharmacologist, who has accumulated so many facts about the chemistry of cell growth that last week he dared to hint that just around the biological corner lie chemical cures for cancers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Parsley & Ginger | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...waistline, 66 in. shaped like a hogshead because "I drink good beer." They found him too fat to wedge into the police car. They called a patrol-wagon, budged him in with difficulty, shoehorned him through the central police station doorway, shouldered him quarterway through a cell door, pried him out, let him sit on a bench. In the morning they opened both the courtroom's double doors to arraign him before Judge Westropp where he pleaded not guilty. They sent him away. Fingernail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 28, 1932 | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

Swap In Mexico City's penitentiary, Martinez Carrillo who wanted food & lodging changed clothes with Convict Ruiz Moreno who wanted freedom. Citizen Carrillo went to Moreno's cell, Convict Moreno out into the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 7, 1932 | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

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