Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Haematometharmozograph is a ten-dollar name for a simple two-hundred dollar contrivance made from an electric light bulb, a photoelectric cell and an oscillograph. On the principle that fear constricts small blood vessels in the fingers, prevents blood from freely circulating through the hands, Dr. Thompson rigged up an apparatus which would indirectly show whether blood vessels were constricted by measuring the amount of light which passes through a person's hand...
...experts had testified that bullets expand on being fired, that no bullet ever again fits the barrel of the gun that fired it. After twelve years unjustly in jail, Alexander Ripan had his freedom but few of his teeth. He had pulled them out one by one in his cell, so that the pain would "keep him from going crazy...
...Robert Hooke's ghost had been in Richmond last week it would have heard something very gratifying. Edwin Grant Conklin, Princeton's famed biologist, declared that it was a mistake to attribute the origin of the biological cell theory, whose centenary is being observed in scientific circles, to two Germans, Schleiden and Swann. "Their theory," said Dr. Conklin, "was a special and in important respects an erroneous one. There is no present biological interest in their theory. . . . Cells were first seen, named, described and figured by Robert Hooke ... 170 years before the work of Schleiden and Swann. Hooke...
...Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess helped write it. Imprisonment also gave Hitler time to perfect his tactics. Even before that time he got from his Communist opponents the idea of gangsterlike party storm troopers; after this the principle of the small cell groups of devoted party workers...
...conclusion of their study the scientists urged the Council to compile detailed medical histories of cancerous families. They also urged laboratory study of "the fundamental problem" in cancer: the origin of the "cell with a capacity for unlimited or uncontrolled growth." Private workers and agencies have "almost entirely neglected" this problem, and it is up to Government workers, concluded the scientists, to answer the crucial question: ". . . Is there a break in the internal control mechanism of the cell, or is there a loss in body control of cell activity...