Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Key West (see p. 13). Other orators of State and church completed the inaugural, but the sublimest signal of all had been furnished the night prior at 10:30 p. m. by the sun itself, then riding at meridian over India. Its noonday rays impinged upon a photoelectric cell in Bombay, closing electric circuits by radio to start the carillon in the Tower of the Sun (400 ft., the fair's tallest). The carillon thereupon chimed out the fair's theme song, "The Bells of Treasure Island." Simultaneously on went the floodlights illuminating the Pageant...
...Contrary to recent newspaper reports, "there is no evidence that cancer is a germ disease." Cancer is a wildfire growth of "anarchist cells" which have broken away from the normal rhythm of cell growth. These anarchist cells are found everywhere in nature: in mice, apes, dogs, horses, fishes, birds, insects, plants...
Year and a half ago Manhattan's New York University hired Bandmaster Vincent Lopez to give a course in the appreciation of jazz music. Last week staid Harvard University burst shagging from its cell, organized an unofficial swing course in the Music Deaprtment and set aside $250 of Harvard's Rogers Fund to buy swing records...
Police arrested Dr. Clendening for disturbing the peace, destroying Government property. After four hours in a cell, where he tried to smash the toilet, he was released in $1,000 bail. Cracked a patrolman: "Would you write me a piece some day, doctor, on the best methods of curing the jitters...
...tested a subject merely sits in a large chair, dangles his left hand between an electric bulb and a photoelectric cell and broods on, Dr. Thompson's descriptions of fearful accidents. The more frightened the patient, the more translucent his hand. Light passing through the patient's fingers controls the amount of current generated by the cell. The current is transmitted to an amplifier, and the amplified current activates an oscillograph (an instrument which records sound or light waves on a sensitized film) or a pen recorder...