Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such un-policemanly behavior Felix del Cristo was dishonorably discharged last week, clapped into Atares Fortress. Four days later Major Crespo, Commandant of the Fortress, tersely announced the death of Felix del Cristo, said he had hung himself in his cell, using a sheet...
...yellow plaque of selenium sulfide. A few drops of mercury in a furnace through which pass more than 200,000 Ib. of flue gas an hour, said A. J. Nerad, blackens the yellow plaque. The degree of blackening indicates the amount of mercury present. A photo-electric cell measures the blackening, warns workmen of danger...
...stood Murderer John Lee, noose about his neck waiting to be hanged. The sheriff gave the sign, the bolt under the scaffold's platform was withdrawn. The platform did not drop. They tinkered the bolt, but still the platform would not fall. John Lee was returned to his cell. A warder stood on the platform, the bolt was drawn, the platform fell. John Lee climbed up again, the bolt was drawn, the platform would not fall. They planed its edges but nothing worked. Unhangable John Lee's case was debated in the House of Commons, his sentence commuted...
...almost three months Jose Melgar, who fired a bullet into the midriff of President Luis Sanchez Cerro (TIME, March 14), has sat in his cell under sentence of death, fear gnawing at his heart...
Meanwhile in his Paris cell Russian Dr. Paul Gorgulov, who killed President Paul Doumer three weeks ago, tried to explain away the crime that is expected to send him to the guillotine...