Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plates covered with the plant water to be free from ripples. Since the films were made between 1 and 3 o'clock in the morning, powerful lights were necessary to insure results on the movie film, and the lights, if not kept at a rigid brilliancy, killed the minute cell life under scrutiny...
Last fortnight brought the first definite answer to the Koutiepoff riddle. La Liberté, Parisian evening daily, published a special edition, charged that six days earlier General Alexander Paul Koutiepoff was seen battered but still alive in a cell in Moscow's Loubianskaia prison...
...seeds or nuts are shredded to a meal, crushed with giant hydraulic presses which exert 300 atmospheres. The cell walls are ruptured, out trickles the oil. But this is expensive...
...life? We have an hour of consciousness and then we are gone," he grumbled as he entered the prison gates. Curtly, like any common thief, he was ordered to bathe, have his hair clipped short, be photographed, fingerprinted. As No. 48,218, he was put in a single cell in the "Old Men's Ward" by Warden James Holohan...
...removed in the prison hospital. During the summer he played baseball in the yard and felt better for the exercise. Always generous, he gave away to charity what his prison-mates estimated at $25,000. This openhandedness was responsible for the unconfirmed rumor that he had occupied a special cell with chintz curtains at the window, easy chairs, cozy bed and mattress. Some Philadelphians interpreted his generosity as a bid for hospitality when...