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Word: celling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time was 4:50 p.m. The 1,200 prisoners had finished supper. In Cell Block No. 6, known as Little Siberia, where Warden Best keeps the toughest 232 of his charges, a guard stepped out on a routine cell check. Suddenly, he was cracked over the head with an iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Trouble in Little Siberia | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

That was the signal. Twelve convicts, many of them lifers, began the escape that had been plotted for weeks. They slugged four other guards, threw a switch that opened the electrically locked cell doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Trouble in Little Siberia | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...taken the Buddhist cure for his troubles (i.e., counting beads and keeping the Buddhist Sabbath), paled as he entered the death cell in Insein jail. Outside, in a glare of fireworks, the independence festivities had begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Independence | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...strength of the film lies in its objectivity. Passing no judgment on twelve-year-old Giuseppe or his fourteen-year-old friend Pasquale, it traces their development from urchins who cry, "Hey, shoeshine, Joe?" at the passing GIs, through the days when they become hardened inmates of a juvenile cell-block where they have been sentenced for black-market sales...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

...James Hillier of the Radio Corporation of America displayed electron pictures of parasitic viruses attacking bacteria. The viruses (one four-hundred-millionth of an inch in diameter) looked like tadpoles with skinny tails and bodies. They penetrate the cell wall of the larger bacterium until they fill the whole cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Small Talk | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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