Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hubert got his undersea idea. Matter of fact it was from his exploring friend Vilhjalmur Stefansson that he derived the thought, while the two were on the Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-18. Were Sir Hubert a charlatan he might aver that the idea popped from an inherited cell of his brain. In 1642 appeared an English book Mathematical Magick in which a "submarine" was intelligently described, its operation suggested with fair sense, and the indication hinted that it could be. used in the "ice and cold-blocked north." Author of Mathematical Magick was John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, ancestor...
...before District Judge Grover Adams to tell the source of his story, Reporter Barr would say only: "I can't betray a confidence." He was fined $100 and went to jail for contempt of court. Telegrams of congratulation, letters, gifts of cigarets, books and magazines poured into his cell. Reporter Barr's lawyer finally persuaded him that his information was not legally "privileged," that he might be kept behind bars indefinitely until he would speak. Then Reporter Barr named his informant-Norman Register, secretary to the district attorney-and was set free. Secretary Register, summoned before the Grand...
...Ismael was one of a group of 28 dervishes, sheiks and others arrested some weeks ago for fomenting insurrection against the Turkish government and later sentenced to death. Leader of the dervishes was 94-year-old Sheik Abdul Hassan, who sat cross-legged on the floor of his prison cell, dressed in an expensive fur-lined overcoat, taking snuff and murmuring "Bismillah!" ("In the name of God!") The night before he was to mount the scaffold at Menemen he quietly died...
...Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for a postgraduate course on Cancer. Professor Joseph Colt Bloodgood taught them how to distinguish cancer growths by showing them representative specimens from among his 45,000 microscopic slides. Only a few were allowed to see the first moving pictures taken of cancer cells growing under glass. Cell growers and picture-takers were Mr. & Mrs. George Otto Gey of Pittsburgh, working at Johns Hopkins' Garvan Cancer Research Laboratory, which the Chemical Foundation and Mr. & Mrs. Francis Patrick Garvan finance...
...under the headline: BOB CARMICHAEL GOES MAD SEARCHING FOR XMAS CARD and over the caption: "BOBBY CARMICHAEL yesterday went crazy working on an idea for a Christmas card. His last words were: 'Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!' You see him above as he appeared in padded cell at Bellevue, to which he was rushed and in which he was photographed." He mailed the prints to friends as his Christmas card. Last year Mad Bob Carmichael sent his friends burlap bags full of ticker tape printed GOOD WISHES GOOD WISHES GOOD WISHES GOOD WISHES. . . . Author Erich Maria Remarque...