Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mornings, onetime Boxer Sydney Robey Leibbrandt punched his shadow about his cell. In the afternoons, he ranted Nazi cant. At night, he ignored his comfortable prison bed for a wooden bench. Three days of each month, he fasted...
...hospitals can use only a small part of Detroit's red-cell residue. Parke, Davis & Co., which does Detroit's blood processing for the Red Cross, developed a way to use the remainder to make peptone-bacteria food ordinarily made from various animal proteins (like hog's stomach, etc.). This new human peptone feeds bacteria cultures grown to make tetanus toxoid, typhoid vaccines and other shots for the armed forces...
...John Benjamin Powell, pre-Pearl Harbor editor of the China Weekly Review, came back to the U.S. late last summer, was carted straight off the exchange ship Gripsholm to Manhattan's Harkness Pavilion to be treated for: 1) gangrenous feet suffered in a filthy, ice-cold Jap prison cell; 2) emaciation that had reduced him from 160 pounds to half as much. Last week imperishable, cheerful Editor Powell was still convalescing, expects to be for many more weeks. But he now weighs 110, one foot is healed. When the other is ready, Powell will begin arduous exercises, finally will...
...longing thought toward his 2,400 icy acres. Two thousand four hundred is a good, round, friendly number: big enough to be impressive, small enough to be comprehensible, easy to remember, subdivide, add to and even forget at bedtime. No man ever yet was hauled to a padded cell for trying to imagine what 2,400 of anything would look like, even coated with...
...juries seldom indict for lynching anywhere, but a jury made legal race history last week in Jackson, Miss. by doing just that: indicting Deputy Sheriff Luther Holder of Jones County-as well as four leaders of a lynch mob-because he did not protest or protect the jail or cell of one Howard Wash and so failed to keep alive his prisoner...