Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upshot was a machine with a grinding wheel that pushes beet-seed clusters against a "shearing bar." This breaks up the cluster at its natural cell divisions. The cracked-off single seeds, when planted, need no thinning...
Electricity in such small packages (one model is no bigger than a man's palm) has heretofore been attainable only in weak, short-lived, dry-cell batteries. The new battery combines the compactness of a dry cell with the greater power of a storage battery. It also works much better than the familiar automobile-type storage battery...
...beginning, Hollis was the meagre roof over the sombre heads of young men studying for the Puritan ministry. The gift of a prudent merchant to a struggling college, the bare wooden rooms and cell-like studies were the omnipresent manifestations of the privations of early faith...
...arms are short from shoulder to elbow, he is more than ordinarily susceptible to stomach ulcers. If he has kept a few baby teeth, he should watch his white blood-cell count. If a child has wide-set eyes, a low nose bridge, folds of skin obscuring the inner eye-corners and wide spaces between his front teeth, he should be especially careful about exposure to infantile paralysis...
...were also tried, also had to be called off. The priests held their own too well. Anti-religious museums, usually set up in former churches, were not much more successful. But the main campaign of the Godless was to educate an atheistic younger generation. With the slogans: "a Godless cell in every school" and "no religious schoolteachers," the Godless enrolled two million schoolchildren. But many more than two million did not join the Godless...