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Word: celling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stopped by Police Inspector George Page explained why he was walking backward: "I like to read the expressions on the faces of the people who are following me." Subject for Study. In Hackensack, N.J., county jailers greeted Rose Mann, charged with assault & battery, studied her 360 pounds, studied their cell doors, arranged for her release without bail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 6, 1943 | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...Nassau. Nancy has watched him laboriously fill one sheet of foolscap after another, passing them round for witnesses and lawyers to read. When his writer's cramp gets too bad, hearings are limited to two hours a day, and Alfred de Marigny fills in the time in his cell, he has told Nancy, composing poems to the mosquitoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Faith and Circumstance | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...Each cell of the body contains a minute suction and pressure pump. . . . Before Alfred Lawson explained PENETRABILITY . . . no one seemed to know the cause of capillary action. The foregoing paragraph should clear up that problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Zigzag & Swirl | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...belted N.M.U. harder or more consistently than Columnist Pegler. He has pictured N.M.U. as a Communist cell attempting to convert all of U.S. labor; has accused Joe Curran of draft dodging. (Curran, married but childless, was deferred as an essential worker, i.e., labor leader.) But what most infuriated N.M.U.ers-who boil over at the mere mention of Pegler's sleeping-car first name-was the columnist's revival of the old scuttlebutt, repeatedly and officially denied, that U.S. merchant sailors mutinied at Guadalcanal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Seaman Joe & the Scuttlebutt | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...Washburn subsequently subsided into a letter-writing state. "On the upper right-hand corner of her last letter was her new . . . address': Cell 217, Women's Division, 200 igth Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. Jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Serpents and Vipers | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

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