Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before dawn in Peiping's model prison a policewoman called to Yoshiko Kawashima through the barred opening of her cell. But Yoshiko slept soundly. Her cell mate, Mrs. Li, a middle-aged opium smuggler, shook her. Said Mrs. Li in great compassion: "Get up, foolish-elder brother...
Reading from left to right, Adams flourishes as the center of a hardy HYD cell. It has, of course, a goodly number of middle of the readers, but the function chiefly to keep the left from becoming too over-conscious of the offenses of the right, and, conversely, to keep the right from the throats of the left. And the right is strong in Adams: it is second only to Eliot in club...
Last week the doctors reported the results of the two-year test in the Journal of the American Medical Association. There was no real difference between the two groups of children-in height, weight, or hemoglobin and red cell count. General health seemed to favor the margarine boys & girls, but the doctors cautiously credited "other variables." Their conclusion : "Whether the greater part of the fat of the diet is derived from vegetable or animal sources has no effect on growth and health. .. . Margarine is a good source of table fat in growing children...
...gunman, one a thief, one an incorrigible delinquent. All of them had made several escapes from Missouri's ill-famed Training School for Boys at Boonville and been recaptured. But they were not tough enough to take the n agging boredom of the bleak, brick-tiled isolation cell. Irritable and depressed, they yammered at each other...
...incompetents, produced such a persuasive "Vermeer" that critics acclaimed it as Vermeer's masterpiece. In 1945, charged with collaboration for having sold Hermann Göring a Vermeer, Dutchman Van Meegeren saved his neck by declaring himself a faker, proved it by painting another "Vermeer" in his prison cell...