Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stern warning to potential U.S. traitors. Up for sentence came Max Stephan, a naturalized German, owner of a small restaurant. Short, pudgy Max Stephan had been convicted of aiding Nazi Oberlentnant Hans Peter Krug, fugitive from a Canadian prison camp, in an attempt to escape to Mexico. In his cell he had boasted: "A victorious Germany will not leave Stephan in jail." His sentence: death by hanging...
...months he has been in a tiny padded cell, this frail little man with glittering eyes and a gentle smile-five hours a day, four days a week. He is not crazy, just listening. The man is Hungary's eminent composer and music scholar, Bela Bartok (Piano Concertos, Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Instruments, MikroKosmos). The cell is a phonograph-listening room at Columbia University. He is listening to some 2,500 double-sided aluminum phonograph discs on which is impressed the largest recorded collection of Yugoslav folk songs ever made...
...officers' garb gave me all he had on the jaw. Then I was dragged to the patrol car, handcuffed between two officers. I was struck again by this man not in uniform, who leaned through a window to hit me. My wife and I were put in a cell and our little girl left on the outside...
Since the Middle Ages, the urban cell has grown out of all recognition. Its neat structure has become disorganized, its central nucleus diseased with slums, its circulation impeded by industrial growths and clotted traffic. "When a city grows compact, as when a forest grows compact," says Saarinen, "it withers...
Near the feathery upper end of the tubes, one sperm cell may be lucky enough to merge with an ovum or egg cell which has been discharged from the nearby ovaries. After this fortunate meeting, the fertilized egg then proceeds back through the tube into the uterus, and burrows into the uterine lining: baby is on its way. This process may be prevented by a number of disorders which occur about as often in husbands as in wives. Therefore Dr. Hamblen urges that men be examined as routinely as women...