Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old George Deckers knew something about the Belgian underground movement. Maybe he did, but George Deckers was not saying. They marched him off, backed him against a wall. A firing squad took aim. But the squad lowered its rifles and George Deckers was marched back to his cell for further questioning. Still he was silent. Again he was marched to the wall. Again the squad did not fire, and George Deckers was returned to his cell for grilling...
Snow was falling on the sea. Each ship in the convoy moved through the night in a white-curtained cell of its own: the transports from New York, laden with munitions for Russia; the high-sided, thick-bowed Russian destroyers, adapted from Italian designs for ice-breaking and patrol in rough northern waters; Britain's new (1939) 8,000-ton cruiser Trinidad, the old and war-tried destroyer Eclipse, several other warships under the Union Jack. This convoy, for the first time in World War II, had brought together British and Soviet naval units for a common...
...electrical charge on a single muscle cell has been precisely measured for the first time, announced Dr. Ralph Gerard of the University of Chicago last week. Using needle-fine microelectrodes on 3/1,000-inch cells from frog muscles, he detected charges of 6/100ths of a volt. This surprisingly large potential is lost when the muscle moves. Thus, said Gerard, stimulation of a muscle consists in momentarily short-circuiting its electrical balance...
...union of Communists and Anarchists. The Stalinists are strongest among the workers in Lombardy, with a small admixture of students and teachers. The Anarchists . . . have their chief strength in the south, especially in Sicily. ... In 1941 it numbered perhaps a hundred thousand and was organized on the cell system...
...output of Rabinowitch's cell is measured in thousandths of amperes, but he is working to improve its efficiency. Not over .1% of the absorbed light is converted into electrical energy, as compared to chlorophyll, which utilizes about 1% of the light it absorbs...