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Word: celling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crime was committed and there was an arrest, and a young man was thrown into a cell. The crime was great, and the young man was just a boy, and the cell was dark. Life seemed at an end and hell became a living thing. Regret tore at every breath-but regret unlocks no doors, as the young man soon found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1941 | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...eighth anniversary of Adolf Hitler's coming to power. All day the air waves chorused Hitler's name. There were programs from the hospital room where the wounded Corporal Hitler decided to enter politics, from the beer hall where Hitler built his Party, from the prison cell into which Hitler was thrown when the first march failed, from the window in the old Chancellery where Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of the Reich. The day's climax was a speech by Hitler himself in Berlin's Sportpalast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Until the Zero Hour | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...development of a device which enables military plane pilots to take photographs of ground objectives at night, at altitudes up to 5,000 ft. The airman drops a powerful magnesium-powder flash bulb equipped with a time fuse which explodes it near the ground. The flash actuates a photoelectric cell in the plane, which instantly trips the camera shutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Technology Notes | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...chief studies have been on benign giant-cell tumors; radiographic findings in pericarditis with effusion; endothelial mycolma; congenital idiopathic enlargement of the heart; primary tumors and massive collapse of the lung; and carcinoma of the breast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. George W. Holmes Retires in September | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...occasionally something goes wrong with the detaching mechanism by which the disturbed cells turn loose their hooks. Then, instead of immunity, allergic sensitization is set up. Though sprouted in great numbers, the hooks remain attached to the cell. Now the cell is more attractive to foreign proteins than before. They swarm to its hooks like hungry wolves pouncing on beefsteaks. From then on, the person is allergic to that protein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Strange Malady | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

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