Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from being a charter member of some little cell of conspirators whose main purpose in lifeis to alter, reform or perhaps destroy advertising as we know it," New Dealer Henderson had only this criticism of advertising: that there was not enough of it for the type of expanding economy he believed in. He had always assumed that advertising was socially useful; he included it "in the category of important civilian activity" which it is his job to preserve; he had not been bothered by advertising as a major cost claim in price-ceiling controversies, and didn't expect...
...public opinion did not underwrite the verdict. While the gibbet was being erected outside her cell, medical men and newspapers insisted on her innocence...
Manganese is used in small amounts by the copper, glass and dry-cell battery industries; but steel uses most of it; about 13 Ib. per ton. Its function in steelmaking is to collect the stray traces of sulfur which all carbon steels contain. The sulfur tends to combine with the iron to make iron sulfide, which collects in films among the crystals of hardening steel, prevents cohesion, makes it brittle, so that it cannot be forged and rolled. Manganese takes the sulfur away from the iron and the manganous sulfide which is formed collects in small globules throughout the metal...
Living quarters in Weld were, in one instance, compared to a monk's cell; lest the prospective occupants of that hall be discouraged, let it be said that a few colorful additions to a room in the way of furniture, will do wonders for even the most ascetic monk
Richard Hottelet, arrested March 15 by Berlin Gestapo agents on charges of spying for an "enemy power," was tossed into a tiny, grim cell in Alexanderplatz prison, deprived of even his eyeglasses "to prevent suicide," left strictly alone for three days-"the hardest and longest I ever spent." Thereafter grilled relentlessly, he was threatened but never tortured with "the brutal methods of the American police." Fed black bread, ersatz coffee, sour gruel and margarine, he was refused books and newspapers, exercised in goose step half an hour a week, received one bath in seven weeks. Shortly before his transfer...